SIGNAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: N181-057
SIGNAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Defense.
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- Amount
- $124,955
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Navy
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Topic
- N181-057
- Solicitation
- 18.1
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- MD
- Period
- 2018-07-02 → 2019-09-17
Description
SSC proposes to develop a novel motion-adaptive matched filter, tuning standard replicas to account for time-varying delays observed in received echoes. The method uses segments of the transmitted waveform to create a bank of time-dilated (Dopplerized) replicas to measure the time-varying delay of strong returns, accounting for unknown or unmeasured motions of the surface ship hull sonar, towed array, and target and thereby reducing signal mismatch. A physics model then dilates the original waveform accordingly, ultimately sharpening and increasing the SNR of target echoes.