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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 24, 1987
Filed:
May. 08, 1985
John W Taylor, Jr, Baltimore, MD (US);
Westinghouse Electric Corp., Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Abstract
An arrangement for selecting between different doppler filter pairs having response characteristics optimized for ground clutter or moving rain clutter rejection. The selecting process detects the amplitude and mean doppler of the received radar echoes. The filter which is optimized for rain clutter rejection is normally used until clutter amplitude is detected above a predetermined value and the mean doppler is detected as being equal to or near zero. When such a detection is made, the filter optimized for ground clutter rejection is selected. Portions of the selecting device allow for the selection to be determined over several samples rather than switching the filters in each sample or coherent processing interval. Another portion of the circuitry changes the predetermined values which must be exceeded for a selection of the ground clutter filter, thereby preventing another filter change with only a small change in detected amplitude or mean doppler.