This study addresses the development of a methodology using the Doppler Effect for high-resolution, short-range tracking of small projectiles and vehicles. Minimal impact on the design of the moving object is achieved by incorporating only a transmitter in it and using ground stations for all other components. This is particularly useful for tracking objects such as sports balls that have configurations and materials that are not conducive to housing onboard instrumentation. The methodology developed here uses four or more receivers to monitor a constant frequency signal emitted by the object. Efficient and accurate schemes for filtering the raw signals, determining the instantaneous frequencies, time synching the frequencies from each receiver, smoothing the synced frequencies, determining the relative velocity and radius of the object and solving the nonlinear system of equations for object position in three dimensions as a function of time are developed and described here.

Thesis (M.S. in Engineering Acoustics)--Naval Postgraduate School, December 2003. / Thesis advisor(s): Kevin Smith, Roy Streit. Includes bibliographical references (p. 95-100). Also available online.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Syracuse University, 2007. / "Publication number: AAT 3295553."

Thesis (M.S. in Electrical Engineering) Naval Postgraduate School, December 1996. / "December 1996." Thesis advisor(s): Gurnam S. Gill. Includes bibliographical references (p. 45). Also available online.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Saint Louis University, 1999. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 195-207). Also available on microfilm and online. <--- LOCAL

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Grâce au développement des techniques spatiales (GNSS, DORIS, laser et le VLBI), la géodésie apporte quantité d’informations sur la forme de la Terre (sa géométrie et sa gravité), sa rotation et son orientation dans l’espace, aux échelles globales comme aux échelles régionales. L’étude des déformations de chaînes de montagne par GPS, des courants marins cartographiés par altimétrie satellitaire, des variations temporelles du champ de gravité, ainsi que l’établissement du repère de référence terrestre international, sont les exemples de l’apport de ces techniques à l’observation de la Terre et au changement global. Notre travail a pour but de faire un bilan des erreurs résiduelles de la géodésie spatiale, en séparant les causes des effets. Le but est de montrer comment les erreurs d’orbite se propagent d’abord dans la trajectoire, puis dans des produits globaux comme le repère de référence (via les mesures de poursuite de satellites) et la surface topographique (via les mesures altimétriques). Nous avons développé une approche analytique qui traite du transfert des erreurs d’origines géométrique et dynamique. En partant des équations du mouvement orbital, nous proposons une solution analytique d’ordre un du mouvement orbital circulaire, qui est appliquée pour propager les erreurs de modèle dynamique. Ensuite, les résultats sont transférés (ou projetés) sur plusieurs types de fonction de mesure : l’altimétrie, les mesures de distance et les mesures de vitesse radiale. L’originalité de ce travail tient pour beaucoup dans les méthodes purement analytiques qui ont été développées spécifiquement pour effectuer les analyses. / Thanks to the development of space techniques (GNSS, DORIS, laser and VLBI) geodesy provides amount of information to determine and to study the shape of the Earth (its geometry and its gravity), its rotation and orientation in space at global scales as well as at regional scales. The study of crustal deformations by using GPS, the ocean topography by satellite altimetry, the temporal variations of the gravity field (mass transports) as well as the construction and monitoring of the International Terrestrial Reference Frame (ITRF), are some examples of the contribution of these techniques to the Earth observation including the current global change. Our work aims to separate causes and consequences. We developed a dedicated approach in which different source of errors, of geometrical and dynamical natures, are treated by analytical expressions. Starting from the dynamical satellite equation of motion, we propose to integrate and propagate the model errors and then to project the results into different measurement functions: altimetry, tracking distances and radial velocities. It results in a complex but comprehensive way that enables the propagation of prediction errors into some general geodetic products as the terrestrial reference frame or the ocean surface topography. The originality of this work lies in the development of a purely analytical method for circular orbits, which has been used to propagate errors from dynamical models. In addition, the resulting orbit errors were projected at the measurement level in order to deduce the impacts on some global geodetic products.

In Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar (ISAR) systems the motion of the target can be classified in two main categories: Translational Motion and Rotational Motion. A small degree of rotational motion is required in order to generate the synthetic aperture of the ISAR systems. On the other hand, the remaining part of the target&rsquo / s motion, that is any degree of translational motion and the large degree of rotational motion, degrades ISAR image quality. Motion compensation techniques focus on eliminating the effect of the targets&rsquo / motion on the ISAR images. In this thesis, ISAR image generation is discussed using both Conventional Fourier Based and Time-Frequency Based techniques. Standard translational motion compensation steps, Range and Doppler Tracking, are examined. Cross-correlation method and Dominant Scatterer Algorithm are employed for Range and Doppler tracking purposes, respectively. Finally, Time-Frequency based motion compensation is studied and compared with the conventional techniques. All of the motion compensation steps are examined using the simulated data. Stepped frequency waveforms are used in order to generate the required data of the simulations. Not only successful results, but also worst case examinations and lack of algorithms are also discussed with the examples.