Sonobuoy simulator
CA 1105700 A · Owner: Her Majesty The Queen In Right Of Canada As Represented By The Minister Of National Defence Of Her Majesty'S Canadian Government · Inventors: Buckler, Lawrence A.
Overview
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The invention relates to a simulator for providing waveforms of the type produced at a receiver from a sonobuoy transmission. The simulator signal includes a component representing reverberation under different sea state conditions and a component representing echo pulses received from a target having relative motion with respect to the sonobuoy. Selected initial range and target speed values can be set in the simulator so that the signal includes a sequence of echo pulses having the varying delay and doppler shift which would occur from a target starting at the selected range and moving at the selected speed. Automatic ranging is optionally provided to simulate movement of a target …
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- Granted July 28, 1981. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended July 28, 1998.
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