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| '''Continuous-wave radar''' is a type of [[radar]] system where a known stable frequency [[continuous-wave]] [[radio]] energy is transmitted and then received from any reflecting objects.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/navy/docs/es310/cwradar/cwradar.htm|title=Continuous-wave Radar|publisher=Federation of American Scientists}}</ref> Continuous-wave (CW) radar uses [[Doppler radar|Doppler]], which renders the radar immune to interference from large stationary objects and slow moving [[Clutter (radar)|clutter]].
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| <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.radartutorial.eu/02.basics/rp06.en.html|title=Continuous-wave Radar|publisher=Radartutorial.eu}}</ref> | |
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| CW radar systems are used at both ends of the range spectrum.
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| * Inexpensive radio-altimeters, proximity sensors and sport accessories that operate from a few dozen feet to several kilometers
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| * Costly [[early-warning]] CW angle track (CWAT) radar operating beyond 100 km for use with surface-to-air missile systems
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| {{Principle CW-radar}}
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| ==Operation==
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| The main advantage of CW radar is that energy is not pulsed so these are much simpler to manufacture and operate. They have no minimum or maximum range, although the broadcast power level imposes a practical limit on range. Continuous-wave radar maximize total power on a target because the transmitter is broadcasting continuously.
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| The military uses continuous-wave radar to guide [[semi-active radar homing]] (SARH) [[air-to-air missile]]s, such as the [[United States|U.S.]] [[AIM-7 Sparrow]] and [[standard missile]]. The launch aircraft ''illuminates'' the target with a CW radar signal, and the missile homes in on the reflected radar waves. Since the missile is moving at high velocities relative to the aircraft, there is a strong Doppler shift. Most modern air combat radars, even [[Pulse-doppler radar|pulse Doppler]] sets, have a CW function for missile guidance purposes.
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| Maximum distance in a continuous-wave radar is determined by the overall bandwidth and transmitter power. This bandwidth is determined by two factors.
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| * Transmit energy density (watts per Hertz)
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| * Receiver filter size (bandwidth divided by the total number of filters)
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| Doubling transmit power increases distance performance by about 20%. Reducing the total FM transmit noise by half has the same effect.
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| [[Frequency domain]] receivers used for continuous-wave Doppler radar receivers are very different from conventional radar receivers. The receiver consists of a bank of filters, usually more than 100. The number of filters determines the maximum distance performance.
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| Doubling the number of receiver filters increases distance performance by about 20%. Maximum distance performance is achieved when receiver filter size is equal to the maximum FM noise riding on the transmit signal. Reducing receiver filter size below average amount of FM transmit noise will not improve range performance.
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| A CW radar is said to be ''matched'' when the receiver filter size matches the RMS bandwidth of the FM noise on the transmit signal.
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| == Types ==
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| There are two types of continuous-wave radar: ''unmodulated continuous-wave'' and ''modulated continuous-wave''.
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| ===Unmodulated continuous-wave===
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| [[File:Doppler effect diagrammatic.png|thumb|400px|Change of wavelength caused by motion of the source]]
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| This kind of radar can cost less than $100 (2012). Return frequencies are shifted away from the transmitted frequency based on the [[Doppler effect]] when objects are moving. There is no way to evaluate distance. This type of radar is typically used with competition sports, like golf, tennis, baseball, and [[NASCAR]] racing.
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| The Doppler frequency change depends on the [[speed of light]] in the air (''c’'' is slightly slower than in vacuum) and ''v'' the speed of the target:<ref>{{Cite book|last=Ditchburn | first = R. W. |title=Light |origyear=1961 |year=1991 |publisher=Dover publications Inc. |pages=331–333}}</ref>
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| :<math>f_r = f_t \left( \frac{1+v/{c'}}{1-v/c'} \right)</math>
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| The Doppler frequency is thus:<ref>{{Cite book|author = [[James M. Ridenour]] |title= Radar System Engineering|series=MIT Radiation Lab series |volume= 1 |year= 1947|page=629}}</ref>
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| :<math>f_d = f_r-f_t = 2v \frac {f_t}{(c'-v)}</math>
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| Since the usual variation of targets' speed of a radar is much smaller than <math>\scriptstyle c', (v \ll c') </math>, it is possible to simplifiy with <math>\scriptstyle \left(c'-v\right) \rightarrow c' </math> :
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| :<math>f_d \approx 2v \frac {f_t}{c'} </math>
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| Continuous-wave radar with no FM modulation only detects moving targets, as stationary targets (along the [[line of sight (telecommunications)|line of sight]]) will not cause a Doppler shift. Reflected signals from stationary and slow-moving objects are masked by the transmit signal, which overwhelms reflections from slow-moving objects during normal operation.
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| ===Modulated continuous-wave===
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| Frequency-modulated continuous-wave radar (FM-CW) – also called continuous-wave frequency-modulated (CWFM) radar<ref>
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| Jim Lesurf.
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| [http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~www_pa/Scots_Guide/RadCom/part15/page2.html "Improved forms of radar"].
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| accessdate=2014-01-24.
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| </ref>
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| – is a short-range measuring radar set capable of determining distance. This increases reliability by providing distance measurement along with speed measurement, which is essential when there is more than one source of reflection arriving at the radar antenna. This kind of radar is often used as "radar altimeter" to measure the exact height during the landing procedure of aircraft.<ref name=Radartutorial>{{Cite web|url=http://radartutorial.eu/02.basics/rp07.en.html |work= Radartutorial |title= Frequency-Modulated Continuous-Wave Radar| accessdate=2012-08-07}}</ref> It is also used as early-warning radar, [[wave radar]], and proximity sensors. Doppler shift is not always required for detection when FM is used.
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| In this system the transmitted signal of a known stable frequency [[continuous wave]] varies up and down in frequency over a fixed period of time by a modulating signal. Frequency deviation between the receive signal and the transmit signal increases with delay, and hence with distance. This smears out, or blurs, the Doppler signal. Echoes from a target are then mixed with the transmitted signal to produce a [[Beat (acoustics)|beat signal]] which will give the distance of the target after demodulation.
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| A variety of modulations is possible, the transmitter frequency can slew up and down as follows :
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| * [[Sine wave]], like air raid siren
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| * [[Sawtooth wave]], like the chirp from a bird
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| * [[Triangle wave]], like police siren in the United States
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| * [[Square wave]], like police siren in the United Kingdom
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| Range demodulation is limited to 1/4 wavelength of the transmit modulation. Instrumented range for 100 Hz FM would be 500 km. That limit depends upon the type of modulation and demodulation. The following generally applies.
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| :<math>Instrumented \ Range = F_r-F_t = \frac {Speed \ of \ Light}{(4 \times Modulation \ Frequency)}</math>
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| The radar will report incorrect distance for reflections from distances beyond the instrumented range, such as from the moon. FMCW range measurements are only reliable to about 60% of the instrumented range, or about 300 km for 100 Hz FM. | |
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| ====Sawtooth frequency modulation====
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| [[File:Fmcw prinziple.png|thumb|upright=1.5|Ranging with an FM-CW radar system: if the error caused by a possible Doppler frequency <math>f_D</math> can be ignored and the transmitter's power is linearly frequency modulated, then the time delay (<math>\Delta t</math>) is proportional to the difference of the transmitted and the received signal (<math>\Delta f</math>) at any time.]]
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| Sawtooth modulation is the most used in FM-CW radars where range is desired for objects that lack rotating parts. Range information is mixed with the Doppler velocity using this technique. Modulation can be turned off on alternate scans to identify velocity using unmodulated carrier frequency shift. This allows range and velocity to be found with one radar set. Triangle wave modulation can be used to achieve the same goal.
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| As shown in the figure the received waveform (green) is simply a delayed replica of the transmitted waveform (red). The transmitted frequency is used to down-convert the receive signal to [[baseband]], and the amount of frequency shift between the transmit signal and the reflected signal increases with time delay (distance). The time delay is thus a measure of the range; a small frequency spread is produced by nearby reflections, a larger frequency spread corresponds with more time delay and a longer range.
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| With the advent of modern electronics, [[digital signal processing]] is used for most detection processing. The beat signals are passed through an [[analog-to-digital converter]], and digital processing is performed on the result. As explained in the literature, FM-CW ranging for a linear ramp waveform is given in the following set of equations:<ref name=Radartutorial/>
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| ::<math>k = \frac {\Delta{f_{radar}}} {\Delta{t_{radar}}}</math>
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| :::where <math>f_{radar}</math> is the radar frequency sweep amount and <math>t_{radar}</math> is the time to complete the frequency sweep.
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| Then, <math>\Delta{f_{echo}} = t_rk</math>, rearrange to a more useful:
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| ::<math>t_r = \frac {\Delta{f_{echo}}} {k}</math>, where <math>t_r</math> is the round trip time of the radar energy.
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| It is then a trivial matter to calculate the physical one-way distance for an idealized typical case as:
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| ::<math>dist_{oneway} = \frac {c' t_r}{2}</math>
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| :::where <math>c'=c/n</math> is the [[speed of light]] in any transparent medium of [[refractive index]] n (n=1 in vacuum and 1.0003 for air).
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| For practical reasons, receive samples are not processed for a brief period after the modulation ramp begins because incoming reflections will have modulation from the previous modulation cycle. This imposes a range limit and limits performance.
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| ::<math>Range \ Limit = 0.5 \ c' \ t_{radar} </math>
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| ====Sinusoidal frequency modulation====
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| [[File:Amfm3-en-de.gif|thumb|right|200px|Sinusoidal FM modulation identifies range by measuring the amount of spectrum spread produced by propagation delay (AM is not used with FMCW).|alt=Animation of audio, AM and FM signals]]
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| Sinusoidal FM is used when both range and velocity are required simultaneously for complex objects with multiple moving parts like turbine fan blades, helicopter blades, or propellers. This processing reduces the effect of complex spectra modulation produced by rotating parts that introduce errors into range measurement process.
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| This technique also has the advantage that the receiver never needs to stop processing incoming signals because the modulation waveform is continuous with no impulse modulation.
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| Sinusoidal FM is eliminated completely by the receiver for close in reflections because the transmit frequency will be the same as the frequency being reflected back into the receiver. The spectrum for more distant objects will contain more modulation. The amount of spectrum spreading caused by modulation riding on the receive signal is proportional to the distance to the reflecting object.
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| The time domain formula for FM is:
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| :<math> y(t) = \cos \left( 2 \pi ( f_{c} + \Beta \cos \left( 2 \pi f_{m} t \right) ) t \right)\,</math>
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| ::where <math>\Beta = \frac{f_{\Delta}}{f_{m}}</math> (modulation index)
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| A time delay is introduced in transit between the radar and the reflector.
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| :<math> y(t) = \cos \left( 2 \pi ( f_{c} + \Beta \cos \left( 2 \pi f_{m} (t + \delta t) \right) ) (t + \delta t) \right)\,</math>
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| ::where <math>\delta t =</math> time delay
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| The detection process down converts the receive signal using the transmit signal. This eliminates the carrier.
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| :<math> y(t) = \cos \left( 2 \pi ( f_{c} + \Beta \cos \left( 2 \pi f_{m} (t + \delta t) \right) ) (t + \delta t) \right)\ \cos \left( 2 \pi ( f_{c} + \Beta \cos \left( 2 \pi f_{m} t \right) ) t \right)\,</math>
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| :<math> y(t) \approx \cos \left( -4 t \pi \Beta \sin ( 2 \pi f_{m} (2t + \delta t) \sin ( \pi f_{m} \delta t) + 2 \delta t \pi \Beta \cos (2 \pi f_{m} ( t + \delta t) ) \right)\,</math>
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| The [[Carson bandwidth rule]] can be seen in this equation, and that is a close approximation to identify the amount of spread placed on the receive spectrum:
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| :<math>Modulation \ Spectrum \ Spread \approx 2 (\Beta + 1 ) f_m \sin (\delta t ) </math>
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| :<math>Range = 0.5 C / \delta t </math>
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| Receiver demodulation is used with FMCW similar to the receiver demodulation strategy used with pulse compression. This takes place before [[Pulse-Doppler_signal_processing#Detection|Doppler CFAR detection processing]]. A large modulation index is needed for practical reasons.
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| Practical systems introduce reverse FM on the receive signal using digital signal processing before the [[Fast Fourier Transform]] process is used to produce the spectrum. This is repeated with several different demodulation values. Range is found by identifying the receive spectrum where width is minimum.
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| Practical systems also process receive samples for several cycles of the FM in order to reduce the influence of sampling artifacts.
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| == Configurations ==
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| [[File:Bsp2 CW-Radar.EN.png|thumbnail|upright=1.5|Block diagram of a simple continuous-wave radar module: Many manufacturers offer such [[transceiver]] modules and rename them as "Doppler radar sensors"]]
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| There are two different antenna configurations used with continuous-wave radar: ''[[monostatic radar]]'', and ''[[bistatic radar]]''.
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| ===Monostatic===
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| The radar receive antenna is located nearby the radar transmit antenna in [[monostatic radar]].
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| [[Feed-through null]] is typically required to eliminate bleed-through between the transmitter and receiver to increase sensitivity in practical systems. This is typically used with continuous-wave angle tracking (CWAT) radar receivers that are interoperable with [[surface to air missile]] systems.
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| Interrupted continuous-wave can be used to eliminate bleed-through between the transmit and receive antenna. This kind of system typically takes one sample between each pair of transmit pulses, and the sample rate is typically 30 kHz or more. This technique is used with the least expensive kinds of radar, such as those used for traffic monitoring and sports.
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| FM-CW radars can be built with one antenna using either a circulator, or circular polarization.
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| ===Bistatic===
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| The radar receive antenna is located far from the radar transmit antenna in [[bistatic radar]]. The transmitter is fairly expensive, while the receiver is fairly inexpensive and disposable.
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| This is typically used with [[semi-active radar homing]] including most [[surface to air missile]] systems. The transmit radar is typically located near the missile launcher. The receiver is located in the missile.
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| The transmit antenna '''illuminates''' the target in much the same way as a [[search light]]. The transmit antenna also issues an [[omnidirectional antenna|omnidirectional]] sample.
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| The receiver uses two antennas{{spaced ndash}}one antenna aimed at the target and one antenna aimed at the transmit antenna. The receive antenna that is aimed at the transmit antenna is used to develop the [[feed-through null]], which allows the target receiver to operate reliably in or near the main beam of the antenna.
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| Most modern systems FM-CW radars use one transmitter antenna and multiple receiver antennas. Because the transmitter is on continuously at effectively the same frequency as the receiver, special care must be exercised to avoid overloading the receiver stages.
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| ===Monopulse===
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| {{Main|Monopulse radar}}
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| Monopulse antennas produce angular measurements without pulses or other modulation. This technique is used in [[semi-active radar homing]].
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| ===Leakage===
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| The transmit signal will leak into the receiver on practical systems. Significant leakage will come from nearby environmental reflections even if antenna components are perfect. As much as 120dB of leakage rejection is required to achieve acceptable performance.
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| Three approaches can be used to produce a practical system that will function correctly.
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| * Null
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| * Filter
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| * Interruption
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| Null and filter approaches must be used with bistatic radar, like [[semi-active radar homing]], for practical reasons because side-lobes from the illumination radar will illuminate the environment in addition to the main-lobe illumination on the target. Similar constraints apply to ground based CW radar. This adds cost.
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| Interruption applies to cheap hand held mono-static radar systems (police radar and sporting goods). This is impractical for bistatic systems because of the cost and complexity associated with coordinating time with nuclear precision in two different locations.
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| The design constraint that drives this requirement is the [[dynamic range]] limitation of practical receiver components that include band pass filters that take time to settle out.
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| ====Null====
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| The null approach takes two signals:
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| * A sample of the actual transmit signal
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| The actual transmit signal is rotated 180 degrees, attenuated, and fed into the receiver. The phase shift and attenuation are set using feedback obtained from the receiver to cancel most of the leakage. Typical improvement is on the order of 30dB to 70dB.
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| ====Filter====
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| The filter approach relies on using a very narrow band reject filter that will eliminate low velocity signals from nearby reflectors. The band reject area spans 10 mile per hour to 100 mile per hour depending upon the anticipated environment. Typical improvement is on the order of 30dB to 70dB.
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| ====Interruption====
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| While interrupted carrier systems are not considered to be CW systems, performance characteristics are sufficiently similar to group interrupted CW systems with pure CW radar because the pulse rate is high enough that range measurements cannot be done without FM modulation.
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| This technique turns off the transmitter off for a period before receiver sampling begins. Receiver interference declines by about 8.7dB per time constant. Leakage reduction of 120dB requires 14 recover bandwidth time constants between when the transmitter is turned off and receiver sampling begins.
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| ==Advantages==
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| Because of simplicity, CW radar are inexpensive to manufacture, relatively free from failure, cheap to maintain, and fully automated. Some are small enough to carry in a pocket. More sophisticated CW radar systems can reliably achieve accurate detections exceeding 100 km distance while providing missile illumination.
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| The FMCW ramp can be compressed providing extra signal to noise gains such one does not need the extra power that pulse radar using a no FM modulation would. This combined with the fact that it is coherent means that Fourier interrogated can be used rather than azimuth integrated providing superior signal to noise and a Doppler measurement.
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| Doppler processing allows signal integration between successive receiver samples. This means that the number of samples can be increased to extend the detection range without increasing transmit power. That technique can be used to produce inexpensive stealthy low-power radar.
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| CW performance is similar to [[Pulse-Doppler_radar#Performance|Pulse-Doppler radar performance]] for this reason.
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| ==Limitations==
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| Unmodulated continuous wave radar cannot measure distance, and the beam is usually broad with [[side-lobe]]s that extend to the side and behind the radar antenna. Signal amplitude provides the only way to determine which object corresponds with which speed measurement when there is more than one moving object near the receiver, but amplitude information is not useful without range measurement to evaluate target size. Moving objects include birds flying near objects in front of the antenna. Reflections from small objects directly in front of the receiver can be overwhelmed by reflections entering antenna side-lobes from large object located to the side, above, or behind the radar, such as trees with wind blowing through the leaves, tall grass, sea surface, freight trains, busses, trucks, and aircraft.
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| Small radar systems that lack range modulation are only reliable when used with one object in a sterile environment free from vegetation, aircraft, birds, weather phenomenon, and other nearby vehicles.
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| With 20dB [[side lobe|antenna side-lobes]], a truck or tree with 1,000 square feet of reflecting surface behind the antenna can produce a signal as strong as a car with 10 square feet of reflecting in front of a small hand held antenna. An area survey is required to determine if hand held devices will operate reliably because unobserved roadway traffic and trees behind the operator can interfere with observations made in front of the operator.
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| This is a typical problem with [[Radar gun|radar speed guns]] used by law enforcement officers, NASCAR events, and sports, like baseball, golf, and tennis. Interference from a second radar, automobile ignition, other moving objects, moving fan blades on the intended target, and other radio frequency sources will corrupt measurements. These systems are limited by wavelength, which is 0.3 meter at [[Ku band]], so the beam spread exceeds 45 degrees if the antenna is smaller than 12 inches (0.3 meter). Significant antenna side-lobes extend in all directions unless the antenna is larger than the vehicle on which the radar is mounted.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mphindustries.com/radar_lidar.php?product=ranger|title=Ranger EZ|publisher=MPH Industries}}</ref>
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| [[Side-lobe|Side-lobe suppression]] and FM range modulation are required for reliable operation. There is no way to know the direction of the arriving signal without side-lobe suppression, which requires two or more antenna, each with its own individual receiver. There is no way to know distance without FM range modulation.
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| Speed, direction, and distance are all required to pick out an individual object.
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| This limitations are due to the well known limitations of basic physics that cannot be overcome by design.
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| Law enforcement agencies include hand held laser in the mix of tools needed for law enforcement to confirm reliable speed and position of an individual vehicle in traffic after radar detects excessive speed.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stalkerradar.com/lidar_lr.shtml|title=Stalker Hand Held Police Laser|publisher=Stalker Radar}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.digitalallyinc.com/speed-guns.html|title=Laser Speed Detector|publisher=Digital Ally}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mphindustries.com/radar_lidar.php?product=speedlasers|title=Speed Laser|publisher=MPH Industries}}</ref>
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| ==See also==
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| * [[Doppler radar]]
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| * [[Pulse-Doppler radar]]
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| == Bibliography ==
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| * Luck, David G. C. ''Frequency Modulated Radar'', published by McGraw-Hill, [[New York]], 1949, 466 pages.
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| * Stimson, George W. ''Introduction to Airborne Radar'', 2nd ed., SciTech Publishing, 584 pages.
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| * {{cite book |title=Optical Frequency-Modulated Continuous-Wave (FMCW) Interferometry |author=Jesse Zheng |isbn=0387230092 |year=2005 |publisher=Springer |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=b9vz97IrRa8C&pg=PA1}}
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| ==References==
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| == External links ==
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| * [http://www.google.com/patents?id=Xh4gAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4#PPP1,M1 Fairly modern invention mechanization]
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| * [http://www.advsolned.com/example_fmcw.html Practical overview of FMCW and FMICW radar signal processing] www.advsolned.com
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