dc.contributor.author | Bates, Jeffrey | |
dc.contributor.author | Grimmett, Douglas | |
dc.contributor.author | Canepa, Gaetano | |
dc.contributor.author | Tesei, Alessandra | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-06-18T13:34:34Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-06-18T13:34:34Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019/05 | |
dc.identifier.govdoc | CMRE-PR-2019-041 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12489/782 | |
dc.description.abstract | Linear frequency modulated (LFM) continuous active sonar (CAS) waveforms show promise for use in target tracking given that waveforms can be split into sub-waveforms (sub-bands), thereby increasing the target refresh rate. However, reducing the duration and bandwidth of the sub-band decreases the SNR/SRR, adversely affecting detection. We present a target detection technique in which sub-bands are averaged incoherently while exploiting the range bias error (commonly observed in large duration LFM CAS waveforms with significant Doppler) to significantly improve detection. Sub-band averaging, known to reduce the false alarm rate, also mitigates channel coherence losses while maintaining detectability in CAS. A method for performing incoherent averaging over many possible Doppler shifts and identifying contacts via clustering in the 3-dimensional range-bearing-Doppler parameter space will be described. Finally, the promising results obtained with this technique on data acquired by the 2016 Littoral CAS Multi-National Joint Research Project sea trial will be shown. | en_US |
dc.format | 12 p. : ill. ; digital, PDF file | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | CMRE | en_US |
dc.source | In: Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 175th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, volume 33, issue 1, 2018, doi: doi.org/10.1121/2.0000817 | en_US |
dc.subject | Continuous active sonar (CAS) | en_US |
dc.subject | Signal processing | en_US |
dc.subject | Artificial intelligence | en_US |
dc.subject | Doppler effect | en_US |
dc.subject | Frequency modulated pulses | en_US |
dc.subject | Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) | en_US |
dc.subject | LCAS16 (Littoral Continuous Active Sonar 2016) trial | en_US |
dc.title | Incoherent sub-band averaging for improved target detection and Doppler estimation in linearly frequency modulated continuous active sonar | en_US |
dc.type | Reprint (PR) | |
dc.type | Papers and Articles | |