K. S.

INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Electronics and Communication Engineering
ASSIGNMENT 3
PRESENTATON On

BLIND SPEEDS
By
CHINNAPU CHARAN TEJA REDDY
1KS18EC016
• Blind speed is defined as the radial velocity of the target at
which the MTI is zero

• It is also defined as the radial velocity of the target which results

in a phase difference of exactly 2Π radians between successive
pulses

• Blind speed is defined as the radial velocity of the target at which

no shift appears making the target appearing stationary and
echoes from the target are cancelled
Blind speeds: response of the single delay-line will be zero whenever the
magnitude of sin(πfd. T) is zero, which occurs when π T =0, ±π, ± 2π…..

== =n

• where n= 0, 1, 2, . . . , and fp = pulse repetition frequency.

• Thedelay-line canceller not only eliminates the d-c component caused

by clutter (n = O), but unfortunately it also rejects any moving target
whose Doppler frequency happens to be the same as the prf or a multiple
thereof.
• Those relative target velocities which result in zero MTI response are
called blind speeds.

• Blind speed is defined as the radial velocity of the target at which the
MTI response is zero.

• It is also defined as the radial velocity of the target which results in a

phase difference of exactly 2π radians between successive pulses.

• Blind speed is defined as the radial velocity of the target at which no

shift appears making the target appearing stationary and echoes from the
target are cancelled.
• The blind speed of the target is given by,

= n=1,2,3,4……..

fd = n / T = n fp
where , vn is the nth blind speed.
fp = pulse repetition frequency.
λ = wavelength
If λ is measured in meters, fp in Hz, and the relative velocity in knots,
the blind speeds are
=
• The blind speeds are one of the limitations of pulse MTI radar which do
not occur with CW radar. They are present in pulse radar because
doppler is measured by discrete samples (pulses) at the PRF rather than
continuously.

• If the first blind speed is to be greater than the maximum radial velocity
expected from the target, the product λfp must be large.

•Thus the MTI radar must operate at long wavelengths (low frequencies)
or with high pulse repetition frequencies