| US 7,586,437 B2 | ||
| Efficient methods for wideband circular and linear array processing | ||
| Unnikrishna Sreedharan Pillai, Harrington Park, N.J. (US); and Ke Yong Li, Jackson Heights, N.Y. (US) | ||
| Assigned to C & P Technologies, Inc., Closter, N.J. (US) | ||
| Filed on Dec. 10, 2007, as Appl. No. 11/953,095. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2009/0147625 A1, Jun. 11, 2009 | ||
| Int. Cl. G01S 13/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 342—175 | 30 Claims |

| 1. A method comprising
transmitting a plurality of pulse transmission signals;
receiving a plurality of received signals at a corresponding plurality of sensors, the plurality of sensors arranged in an
array;
using the plurality of received signals to determine a combination received signal;
wherein the combination received signal has a wideband frequency spectrum and the combination received signal includes interference,
noise, and at least one return due to one or more of the plurality of pulse transmission signals from at least one target;
wherein each of the plurality of received signals has contributions from scatter returns from a plurality of arrival angles
in a field of view of each sensor of the plurality of sensors and contributions due to each pulse transmission signal of the
plurality of pulse transmission signals;
wherein the combination received signal includes a plurality of pulse return signals corresponding to the plurality of pulse
transmission signals;
further comprising stacking the plurality of pulse return signals in a computer memory as a plurality of raw data vectors;
further comprising performing a Fourier transform on the plurality of raw data vectors to transform the plurality of raw data
vectors into a plurality of Fourier transform vectors associated with a corresponding plurality of frequencies and stacking
the plurality of Fourier transform vectors in a computer memory to form a stacked Fourier transform vector;
transforming the stacked Fourier transform vector into a narrow band data vector by multiplying the stacked Fourier transform
vector with a predetermined frequency compensating matrix;
performing a traditional space-time adaptive method for target detection on the narrowband data vector to form a plurality
of outputs.
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