Analysis of possibility to improve the civil marine radar efficiency during navigation in the Arctic waters

Abstract

Abstract The paper presents the civil marine radar (CMR) efficiency in the polar waters in the case of advanced signal processing based on the optimal filtering of the voltage coming to the intermediate frequency amplifier. The structure of the radar subsystem was modified by adding two complementary filter units that allow to transform the filter frequency response into the almost sinc-function curve providing much better detection of weak radar echoes. The studies have shown that the updated radar matched filter makes it possible for CMR to observe objects with relatively small scattering cross section at the considerably longer distances than up-to-date CMR. Also it is explained that this radar signal processing doesn’t require the increasing of CMR cost which can also be considered as advantage of the method.