This work was partially performed during the SAFARI-Study, which was
financed by DLR and performed in co-operation with ASTRIUM , Germany
Figure 2. Compressed combined raw signal with filter for up and down chirp In the following, we only evaluate section (II), which is char-
(top) and up chirp compressed with up chirp filter (bottom) acterized by a full overlap of the two rect-functions in ( 12 ).
T
+ amb T
IV. MISMATCHED FILTERING FOR EXTENDED TARGETS 1 2
k 2
ramb (t ) = exp j (t x ) dx ( 14 )
Here, extended targets are simply modeled being an array of 2 Tamb + T
p
2
point targets with same amplitude and phase, and an extension 2
t k
exp[ j k t 2 ] rect
t exp j t 2
eunamb (t ) = rect
Tamb k
+ 2 Tp 2
(7)
eamb (t ) = rect (8) The integral is the backward Fourier transform of a chirp sig-
Tamb Tp nal, and is solved by the principle of stationary phase:
A. Calculation of Matched Filtered Extended Target Response
Using the result of the matched point target filtering given in k
exp j t 2 exp j
2 2 k k 4
equation ( 6 ), the result of mismatched filtering of the return r amb (t ) = exp j exp j t 2 =
2 k 2 4 2 k
signal of a wanted extended target is directly the convolution of
the extended target with the impulse response function in ( 6 ). ( 15 )
The convolution integral can be written to be: