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Receiver Noise, SNR, Integration of Radar Pulses
Receiver Noise, SNR, Integration of Radar Pulses
Receiver Noise, SNR, Integration of Radar Pulses
PRESENTED TO:
Engr. Abdur Rehman Rizvi
Outline
Noise
Receiver noise
Thermal noise
Signal to Noise ratio
Integration of radar pulses
Noise:
RECEIVER NOISE:
Noise is the chief limiting factor of the sensitivity of a receiver. If the receiver itself
were perfect and did not generate any excess noise, there would still exist noise
called thermal noise.
Thermal noise:
1)
Noise
factor
2) Noise figure
3) Noise temperature
Noise Factor:
Noise factor specifies how much additional noise the device will contribute to the
noise already from the source.
Noise Figure:
It is noise
factor converted to decibel. It is measure of degradation of signal to noise
ratio (SNR)
It is the ratio of SNR at input to the SNR at output.
Noise Temperature:
The noise temperature is the noise introduced by amplifier that may be termed as
effective temperature. Given by
T = N/kB
Where N is the noise power within bandwidth B, and
k = 1.38 × 10-23J K-1 is Boltzmann's constant
Signal to Noise Ratio:
The signal
to noise ratio, SNR or S/N ratio is one of the most straightforward
methods of measuring radio receiver sensitivity.
SNR is defined as the ratio of signal power to the noise power, often expressed
in decibels.
Integration of Radar Pulses
The process of summing all the radar pulses to improve detection is known as “Pulse
integration”
Depending on location of the pulse integrator in the signal processing chain this
process is referred to as
coherent integration.
non-coherent integration.
Coherent Integration:
Insertion of a Pulse integrator between the matched filter and amplitude detector.
Pre detection Integration
Phase information of the echo signal is preserved
If n pulse are integrated, the SNR of integrated signal is nSNR.
Difficult to implement
Non-Coherent Integration :