CHAPTER 17（第十七章）.pdf

CHAPTER 17 PULSE DOPPLER RADAR William H. Long David H. Mooney William A. Skillman Westinghouse Electric Corporation 17.1 CHARACTERISTICSANDAPPLICATIONS Nomenclature. For the purpose of this chapter, the term pulse doppler (PD) will be used for radars to which the following apply : 1. They utilize coherent transmission and reception; that is, each transmitted pulse and the receiver local oscillator are synchronized to a free-running, highly stable oscillator. 2. They use a sufficiently high pulse repetition frequency (PRF) to be ambig- uous in range. 3. They employ coherent processing to reject main-beam clutter, enhance tar- get detection, and aid in target discrimination or classification. Applications. PD is applied principally to radar systems requiring the detection of moving targets in a severe clutter environment . Table 17. 1 lists typical applications 1^0 and requirements. This chapter will deal principally with airborne applications, although the basic principles can also be applied to the ground-based case. PRFs. Pulse doppler radars are generally divided into two broad PRF categories: medium and high PRF.11 In a medium-PRF radar1214 the target and clutter ranges and velocities of interest are usually ambiguous, while in a high- PRF radar 15 the range is ambiguous but the velocity is unambiguous (or has at most a single velocity ambiguity as discussed later). A low-PRF radar, commonly called a moving-target indicator (MTI),16 is one in which the ranges of interest are unambiguous while the velocities are usually ambiguous. MTI radars are generally not categorized as pulse doppler radars, al- though