Design of moving target indication filters with non-uniform pulse repetition intervals

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Staggering the pulse repetititon intervals is a widely used solution to alleviate the blind speed problem in Moving Target Indication (MTI) radar systems. It is possible to increase the first blind speed on the order of ten folds with the use of non-uniform sampling. Improvement in blind speed results in passband fluctuations that may degregade the detection performance for particular Doppler frequencies. Therefore, it is important to design MTI filters with non-uniform interpulse periods that have minimum passband ripples with sufficient clutter attenuation along with good range and blind velocity performance. In this thesis work, the design of MTI filters with non-uniform interpulse periods is studied through the least square, convex and min-max filter design methodologies. A trade-off between the contradictory objectives of maximum clutter suppression and minimum desired signal attenuation is established by the introduction of a weight factor into the designs. The weight factor enables the adaptation of MTI filter to different operational scenarios such as the operation under low, medium or high clutter power. The performances of the studied designs are investigated by comparing the frequency response characteristics and the average signal-to-clutter suppression capabilities of the filters with respect to a number of defined performance measures.Two further approaches are considered to increase the signal-to-clutter suppression performance. First approach is based on a modified min-max filter design whereas the second one focuses on the multiple filter implementations. In addition, a detailed review and performance comparison with the non-uniform MTI filter designs from the literature are also given.

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Moving target indicator radar., Radar targets., Radar, Target acquisition.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/22418

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Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis

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M. İspir, “Design of moving target indication filters with non-uniform pulse repetition intervals,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2013.