摘要 |
A method for towed sonar arrays, wherein antenna movement is electronically compensated to suppress the Doppler shift in the fixed echoes. For this purpose, a series of M sensors in a towed linear antenna (203) which includes N sensors (205), and where M < N, are selected and electronically switched so that they scan the antenna in a phantomlike manner in the opposite direction to antenna movement and at twice its forward speed. To avoid having too many physical sensors, their signals are interpolated to obtain a sufficient number of phantom sensors to reduce the increment of the phantom sub-antenna's movement and thereby suppress the interfering lobes caused by the incremental nature of said movement. The method allows the sensitivity of sonars to be increased without increasing their power.
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