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Date of Patent:
Oct. 24, 2000

Filed:

Jun. 01, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:

Volker Koch, Ruckersdorf, DE;

Assignee:

Diehl Stiftung & Co., Nurnberg, DE;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S / ; G01S / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
342 73 ; 342 13 ; 342 61 ; 342 70 ; 342 89 ; 342 94 ; 342 95 ; 342147 ; 342175 ; 342189 ; 342195 ; 375200 ;
Abstract

A pseudo-noise-modulated spread spectrum is irradiated undirectedly--or, encoded by different modulation, into mutually displaced spatial sectors--and the energy (20) received after reflection at a potential target (13) is cross-correlated, using the pseudo-noise code which is predetermined at the transmission end, in order to provide a spherical monitoring effect which is continuous but which cannot be located in respect of its origin, to provide a warning in particular for marine craft, land vehicles and aircraft against an attacking guided missile as the target (13) to be repelled, and in order to be able to transfer to a target tracker (12) distance and speed information obtained from the correlation product, with the alarm signal, if the alarm sensor (11) is not itself also used as the tracking sensor.


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