Analysis of location signals by means of deconvolution

The output signal of the location channel is the convolution product of the input signal and the impulse response of the locating channel, and contains both the transit time and the target properties. The use of the deconvolution method to separate the transit time and the target properties from disturbed input signals is studied. Operations in the time and spectral range were found to be more advantageous than correlation techniques. Deconvolution can be achieved by either spectral analysis or correlation analysis by means of integral transforms.