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Estimation of the energy spectrums of reflections in pulse doppler weather radars. Part 3. Statistical analysis of the reconstruction techniques of continuous spectrums of the reflections from meteorological objects

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This is the third paper in a series of papers dedicated to the peculiarities of estimation of the continuous energy spectrums of random processes of different nature, which are determined by their samples at discrete moments of time. In the article we justify the methodology and present the quantitative results of analytical and experimental investigation and comparison of statistical characteristics of classical and “parametric” methods of energy spectrums reconstruction for interperiod fluctuations of different nature reflections (including the ones from meteorological objects) in pulse radars. The methodology is followed by quantitative results which correspond to and obtained for a real-world “adaptive” case. Under the latter, a priori unknown echoes’ covariance matrix is replaced with different-kind estimates formed from finite-size training samples. Based on the results obtained, we substantiate the spectral estimation algorithms reasonable for utilization in different-purpose radars, in particular in pulse Doppler weather ones. Discussion of efficient ways for their practical implementation on a unified basis of adaptive lattice filters concludes the paper.

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Original Russian Text © D.I. Lekhovytskiy, D.V. Atamanskiy, D.S. Rachkov, A.V. Semeniaka, 2017, published in Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Radioelektronika, 2017, Vol. 60, No. 2, pp. 59–96.

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Lekhovytskiy, D.I., Atamanskiy, D.V., Rachkov, D.S. et al. Estimation of the energy spectrums of reflections in pulse doppler weather radars. Part 3. Statistical analysis of the reconstruction techniques of continuous spectrums of the reflections from meteorological objects. Radioelectron.Commun.Syst. 60, 47–79 (2017). https://doi.org/10.3103/S0735272717020017

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