Transmit codes and receive filters for pulse compression radar systems

Pulse compression radar systems make use of transmit code sequences and receive filters that are specially designed to achieve good range resolution and target detection capability at practically acceptable transmit peak power levels. The present paper is a contribution to and a survey of the literature on the problem of designing transmit codes and receive filters for radar. In a nutshell: the main goal of this paper, which considers the cases of both negligible and nonnegligible Doppler shifts, is to show how to design the receive filter (including its length) and the transmit code sequence via the optimization of a number of relevant metrics considered separately or in combination. The paper also contains several numerical studies whose aim is to illustrate the performance of the presented designs. Compared with most of the previously published works on the subject, the present contribution is more coherent as well as more complete, and yet the approach taken here is generally s...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: ICASSP
• Authors: Petre Stoica, Jian Li, Ming Xue
• Keywords: ICASSP 2008, Receive filter, Signal Processing, Transmit Code, Transmit Code Sequence