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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 06, 1976
Filed:
May. 03, 1974
Judson J Gostin, Manlius, NY (US);
General Electric Company, Syracuse, NY (US);
Abstract
Disclosed is a radar signal processor providing Moving Target Indicator (MTI) operation with Constant False Alarm Ratio (CFAR) capability. The processor affords substantially reduced incidence of false alarms due to large clutter scatterer returns which exceed normal detection thresholds even after suppression by conventional MTI processing, and at the same time it affords largely unimpaired subclutter visibility. These capabilities are achieved by paralleling the MTI channel with a second processor channel which provides CFAR operation by imposing an additional detection threshold effective to blank the response of the MTI channel to very large clutter scatterers.