Optimal transmit signal design for active sonar/radar
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Kay, Steven M.; Thanos, John H.
- Source
- 2002 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2002 IEEE International Conference on. 2:II-1513-II-1516 May, 2002
- Subject
- Signal Processing and Analysis
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Computing and Processing
Silicon compounds
Radar
Optimized production technology
- Language
- ISSN
- 1520-6149
This work is concerned with the optimization of an active sonar or radar transmit signal, to maximize the probability of detecting a nonmoving point target in the presence of signal-dependent reverberation and colored ambient noise whose power spectral densities are known. An analytical solution first reported by Kooij is corrected and extended. A simple example for the white ambient noise case is included to provide insight into the transmit signal optimization. This example shows that the effect of the solution is to “pre-emphasize” the transmit signal, which results in the whitening of the signal-dependent reverberation power spectral density.