Passive sensing for adaptable radar bandwidth

A spectrum sharing technique is introduced that passively monitors the RF spectrum for sub-bands of high signal to interference plus noise ratios (SINR) within a constrained bandwidth of interest. The goal of the proposed technique is to allow the radar to maintain high levels of SINR within selected frequency sub-bands in a highly congested RF environment. A sub-band is selected for radar that maximizes SINR and minimizes the range resolution cell size, two conflicting objectives. In this paper, a spectrum sensing experiment is conducted to collect multiple frequency spectra that are processed by the proposed technique. It will be shown that the proposed technique identifies frequency sub-bands of high SINR while maintaining range resolution requirements.

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