A Novel Radar Waveform for Monostatic Ionosonde

Author

Yao, Ming ; Zhao, Zhengyu ; Chen, Gang ; Yang, Guobin ; Li, Shipeng ; Su, Fanfan ; Li, Ning ; Huang, Shuo ; Li, Ting ; He, Zuowei ; Pu, Tianyao

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electron. Inf., Wuhan Univ., Wuhan, China

Volume

8

Issue

1

fYear

2011

Firstpage

39

Lastpage

43

Abstract

Monostatic radar, whether using interpulse or intrapulse coded pulse trains, will suffer from the blind zones caused by eclipsing. This letter proposes a novel biphase interpulse coded radar waveform using diverse Pulse Repetition Intervals (PRIs) instead of a consistent PRI within each coherent processing interval (CPI). This waveform can achieve long unambiguous range, high-range resolution and high Doppler resolution without blind zones, and is specially suitable for a monostatic ionosonde.

Keywords

Doppler radar; biphase interpulse coded radar waveform; blind zones; coherent processing interval; eclipsing; high Doppler resolution; high-range resolution; interpulse coded pulse train; intrapulse coded pulse train; monostatic ionosonde; monostatic radar; pulse repetition intervals; Doppler radar; Educational institutions; Frequency; Helium; Ionosphere; Probes; Pulse compression methods; Spaceborne radar; Timing; Transmitters; Biphase interpulse coding; Wolfmann–Goutelard sequence (WG sequence); diverse PRIs; m-sequence;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1545-598X

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LGRS.2010.2050522

Filename

5498949