Research/Patents/US 4998224
US 4998224Tier 3 — General Defense

SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING IMPROVED REVERBERATION LIMITED SONAR PERFORMANCE

Assignee

US Government

Filed as: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY THE

Filed

Oct 1, 1984

Granted

Mar 5, 1991

Location

OLD LYME CT US

Abstract

Apparatus and method for providing increased gains in detection and classcation of active sonar targets while concurrently preventing target cognizance of detection. Operation starts with transmission of a sequence of FM slides as subpulses alternately up slide, down slide, up slide, etc., while varying randomly the start frequency of each. Subpulse lengths short enough to avoid overlap of echoes from multiple major reflectors are used. Each slide is started at a randomized frequency. Just enough bandwidth is used on each slide to achieve the range resolution desired for searching. Considering only the individual subpulse bandwidth, subpulses are transmitted throughout the systems total bandwidth. Enough subpulses are transmitted to achieve the bandwidth/time product desired for searching.

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35 USC §181 Secrecy Order

Imposed

Dec 2, 1987

Rescinded

May 4, 1990

Duration

2 years, 5 months

Inventor

  • 1MICHAEL M. HUNDT

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