Implementation of Adaptive Pulse Compression in Solid-State Radars: Practical Considerations

Author

Shang Wang ; Zhengzheng Li ; Yan Zhang ; Boonleng Cheong ; Lihua Li

Author_Institution

Adv. Radar Res. Center, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA

Volume

12

Issue

10

fYear

2015

fDate

Oct. 2015

Firstpage

2170

Lastpage

2174

Abstract

This letter summarizes the applications of adaptive pulse compression (APC) in example solid-state radars for different missions. The radar examples include an X-band PX-1000 ground radar for severe weather observation, a Ku-band airborne radar for near-surface precipitation measurement, and an X-band radar experiment for air traffic observation. Representative APC algorithms are compared in terms of target estimation performance. In order to achieve the benefits of APC in actual radars, some important tradeoffs and considerations such as waveform template, sampling scheme, and noise estimation are discussed.

Keywords

air traffic; airborne radar; atmospheric precipitation; atmospheric techniques; meteorological radar; pulse compression; radar signal processing; signal denoising; signal sampling; Ku-band airborne radar; X-band PX-1000 ground radar; adaptive pulse compression; air traffic observation; near-surface precipitation measurement; noise estimation; representative APC algorithms; sampling scheme; solid-state radars; waveform template; weather observation; Airborne radar; Azimuth; Estimation; Meteorology; Noise; Signal resolution; Adaptive pulse compression (APC); multimission radar; solid-state radar;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1545-598X

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LGRS.2015.2454481

Filename

7172487