A novel analytical method and error criterion of the synthetic range profile

In this paper, a novel method to analyze the distortion of a synthetic range profile (SRP) is put forward, which is simpler and more effective, and more importantly it can be available for the present existing any synthetic wideband waveform (SWW) forms. At the same time, since the traditional error criterion of the SRP for the stepped frequency waveform (SFW) is the quadratic phase error criterion, which has some inherent faults for any synthetic wideband waveforms, a modified error criterion is proposed to overcome such shortcomings. Specific conclusions are investigated with some simulations.