Title :
Computation of QAM radar transmit signals with low autocorrelation side lobes
Author :
Jenshak, James ; Stiles, James
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Univ. of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Abstract :
This paper lays out a technique for designing QAM codes for radar. It will be shown that the QAM codes designed by the algorithm described in this paper result in significantly better target profile estimation error than other similar codes. In addition a method will be described to write a QAM code as the coherent super position of PSK codes which should ease some of the practical implementation issues of QAM codes.
Keywords :
phase shift keying; quadrature amplitude modulation; radar; PSK codes; QAM radar transmit signals; low autocorrelation side lobes; phase shift keying; quadrature amplitude modulation; Algorithm design and analysis; Amplitude modulation; Autocorrelation; Computer science; Estimation error; Phase modulation; Phase shift keying; Quadrature amplitude modulation; Radar; Signal design;
Conference_Titel :
Radar Conference, 2009 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Pasadena, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2870-0
Electronic_ISBN :
1097-5659
DOI :
10.1109/RADAR.2009.4977032
