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Frequency ambiguity resolution

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The apparent speed for PRF A falls in the 200MPH filter, and the apparent speed for PRF B falls in the 400MPH filter. This combination places the true target speed at 1,400MPH (2x6+2 or 2x5+4). This can be seen graphically when range intervals are stacked end-to-end as shown below.
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Frequency ambiguity resolution is required to obtain the true radial velocity when the measurements is made using a system where the following inequality is true.
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Processing techniques are slightly more complicated when there is more than one reflection at the same distance with slightly different radial velocity.
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function, where the spectrum amplitudes from one PRF are applied to spectrum samples from the other PRF as a sliding window function.
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Radial velocity aliasing occurs when reflections arrive from reflectors moving fast enough for the Doppler frequency to exceed the
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This is explained best using an example with 2 different PRF, although real systems use a different method.
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When the Doppler frequency shift exceeds the PRF, the frequency is reduced. This limitation is called the
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Ambiguity resolution is typically implemented with a look-up table. This could also be implemented as a
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In the example, PRF A can detect true speed up to 600MPH and PRF B can detect true speed up to 500MPH.
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Frequency is folded for high speed targets where radial velocity produces a frequency shift above the
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This frequency ambiguity resolution signal processing technique determines true velocity.
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Doppler frequency shift is introduced onto reflected signals used by radar.
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Doppler signal sampled with a pulse rate near the Doppler frequency.
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The Nyquist frequency will also change when the PRF is changed.
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The radial velocity measurements made in this way produce a
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onto the apparent frequency of the reflected signal.
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is used to find the true target velocity for medium
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pulse repetition frequency
pulse-Doppler radar
pulse repetition frequency
modulo
aliasing
range ambiguity resolution
Nyquist sampling rate
modulo operation
Nyquist frequency
modulo operation
convolution
"Sampling and Aliasing"
the original
"Sliding Window"
Category
Radar signal processing

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