METHOD FOR PROCESSING MULTIPLE PATHWAYS AND DEVICE FOR IMPLEMENTING SAID METHOD

摘要

The invention relates to the processing of multiple paths in an interrogator station which, in response to a query burst, receives responses in the form of pulses. The station comprises at least two reception channels. The answers to each interrogation of the same salvo are classified in order of appearance. A dispersion of the energies is estimated, for each channel and for each salvo, on the answers having the same classification. Since the first ranked response is assumed to have arrived by a direct path, the following responses will be eliminated, for multipath reception, if their dispersions of energies on both paths are not equivalent to those of the first response. .Application to IFF, radar, altimeters. / P