DocumentCode
3419713
Title
Improving Ambiguity Function of Costas signal
Author
Kasas, Khaola ; Aboulnour, Hassan ; Kawas, Osama
Author_Institution
Dep. of Electron. & Commun. Eng., Damascus Univ., Damascus, Syria
fYear
2009
fDate
15-17 Nov. 2009
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
5
Abstract
This paper presents the effects of modifying Costas signal in time and frequency to improve ambiguity function (AF). The effect of adding frequency spacing, linear frequency modulation, constant space time, and variable space time between sub-pulses of Costas signal are presented and compared. It is shown that a considerable reduction of side-lobe and better Doppler resolution is achieved by using variable spacing between sub-pulses of Costas signal.
Keywords
frequency modulation; signal processing; Costas signal; Doppler resolution; ambiguity function; constant space time; linear frequency modulation; sidelobe reduction; variable space time; Bandwidth; Chirp modulation; Frequency modulation; Matched filters; Pulse measurements; Pulse modulation; Radar detection; Signal resolution; Space technology; Space vector pulse width modulation; Ambiguity Function; Costas signal; Pulse Compression;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Microwave Symposium (MMS), 2009 Mediterrannean
Conference_Location
Tangiers
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-4664-3
Electronic_ISBN
978-1-4244-4665-0
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/MMS.2009.5409830
Filename
5409830
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