PERFORMANCE OF AN AUTOMATED RADAR TARGET DISCRIMINATION SCHEME USING E-PULSES AND S-PULSES

Previous papers have demonstrated the viability of natural resonance b ased target discrimination using extinction pulses (E pulses) and sing le-mode pulses (S pulses). These papers qualitatively demonstrated the principles of resonance annihilation by forcing the interrogating pul se to have zeros at the complex natural resonance frequencies of the t arget. This paper presents a quantitative scheme for evaluating discri mination using the E pulse and the S pulse. Moreover, the performance of an automated E-pulse and S-pulse discrimination scheme is evaluated using numerically derived scattering data with varying amounts of noi se.