A Double Stage IPCP Detector for UWB Radars

Among ultra wide band (UWB) detectors have been introduced yet, single pulse detectors don´t have good performance as two or multiple pulses detectors. Multiple pulses and multi-channel detectors increase calculation load and need faster processors than single or double-pulse detectors. Since they don´t have equal detection performance for different number of target bright points, they are used in multi-channel architecture. In this paper, a double stage detector consisted of an Inter-Period Correlation Processing (IPCP) as first stage followed by another stage to detect targets missed in the first stage is proposed. The proposed detector improves IPCP detection performance without having multi-channel computational load.