A new chirp-coded radar waveform

Author

Guizhou, Lv ; Qiang, He ; Zhensheng, Wei

Author_Institution

Dept. of Opt. & Electron. Eng., Mech. Eng. Coll., Shijiazhuang, China

fYear

2004

fDate

1-4 Nov. 2004

Firstpage

344

Lastpage

347

Abstract

A new chirp-coded radar waveform (ICC-2) is introduced, relative to the old type intra-pulse chirp-coded (ICC-1) waveform described by Xu Qing (Syst. Eng. and Elect., vol.12, p.7-8, 2000). The waveform forming, ambiguity function and match filter output are discussed. From the discussion, it is found that the ICC-1 can achieve higher resolution than chirp and phased code waveforms and ICC-2 is not suitable for target position radar. The reasons are given by analyzing the spectrum, ambiguity function and match filter output. Finally, it is indicated that through some restructuring, ICC-2 can achieve good performance by stepping frequency etc. It is useful in radar target identification applications.

Keywords

chirp modulation; matched filters; radar resolution; radar target recognition; spread spectrum radar; ultra wideband radar; UWB radar; ambiguity function; chirp-coded radar waveform; frequency stepping; intra-pulse chirp-coded waveform; match filter output; phased code waveform; radar target identification; range resolution; target position radar; waveform forming; Chirp; Frequency; Impedance matching; Matched filters; Optical filters; Pulse modulation; Shape; Signal resolution; Space vector pulse width modulation; Ultra wideband radar;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computational Electromagnetics and Its Applications, 2004. Proceedings. ICCEA 2004. 2004 3rd International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8562-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCEA.2004.1459362

Filename

1459362