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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 14, 1982
Filed:
Aug. 13, 1980
William M Waters, Millersville, MD (US);
George J Linde, Accokeek, MD (US);
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
A system, which interfaces with a radar indicator, for improving signal-toise ratio (SNR) and enhancing the detection of moving targets includes an analog-to-digital (A/D) converter, an integrator, a digital memory, a digital-to-analog (D/A) converter, and a synchro-to-digital converter. Radar video is converted to digital signals which are integrated and stored in memory. The angle signal from the antenna pedestal synchro is fed to the synchro-to-digital converter and stored in memory. The contents of the memory is processed, converted to analog form, and fed to the indicator. The radar provides a number M of sweeps within each beamwidth, or angular sector, of the antenna during each antenna scan. Contiguous sets of M sweeps are added to form batches. The signal content for each batch is displayed on the indicator in the angular sector which is identified with the M sweeps. The width of each sector is approximately a beamwidth. Within each sector a number N of batches, which are formed during N successive scans, is displayed on the indicator such that the batch formed during the latest scan appears at the clockwise boundary of a sector and the batch formed during the oldest scan appears at the counterclockwise boundary. The SNR is improved by digitally adding M successive sweeps and displaying the results from N successive scans in a manner whereby signal-plus-noise from one scan is not corrupted by noise from other scans.