A NOVEL NONLINEAR FREQUENCY MODULATED CHIRP SIGNAL FOR SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR AND SONAR IMAGING
Abstract
In order to maintain average power levels as well as high range resolution, phasecoded signals are used in radar and sonar signal processing. One of the most commonly used phase-coded signals is the linear frequency modulated chirp waveform. Various nonlinear frequency-modulated chirps are offered as alternatives to linear frequency modulated chirp. In this paper a new nonlinear frequency modulated chirp waveform is proposed. Properties like bandwidths, point spread functions and Fourier transforms are given for the proposed chirp signal. Synthetic imagery for spotlight imaging geometry is reconstructed by using the polar format and Stolt format processing techniques using the linear frequency-modulated (LFM) and proposed nonlinear frequency modulated chirp. Comparisons are presented, and it is shown that proposed waveform can improve the sonar image resolution.
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Details
Primary Language
English
Subjects
Engineering
Journal Section
Research Article
Authors
Cihan Bayındır
This is me
Publication Date
January 20, 2016
Submission Date
January 20, 2016
Acceptance Date
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Published in Issue
Year 2015 Volume: 11 Number: 1