Overview of radar waveform diversity

SD Blunt, EL Mokole - IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Radar waveform diversity has received considerable attention in recent years due to
increasing spectral congestion and the burgeoning capabilities of digital waveform …

Filter design to address range sidelobe modulation in transmit-encoded radar-embedded communications

C Sahin, JG Metcalf, SD Blunt - 2017 IEEE Radar Conference …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In a companion paper a continuous phase modulation (CPM) based approach has been
introduced to embed information sequences into physical radar emissions, yielding …

Experimental evaluation of adaptive Doppler estimation for PRI-staggered radar

LA Harnett, B Ravenscroft, SD Blunt… - 2022 IEEE Radar …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Doppler processing enables pulse-Doppler radar to cancel clutter and discriminate movers
based on their relative radial motion by exploiting slow-time signal coherence across the …

Practical considerations for optimal mismatched filtering of nonrepeating waveforms

MB Heintzelman, JW Owen, SD Blunt… - 2023 IEEE Radar …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We consider the intersection between nonrepeating random FM (RFM) waveforms and
practical forms of optimal mismatched filtering (MMF). Specifically, the spectrally-shaped …

Fast sidelobe suppression based on two-dimensional joint iterative adaptive filtering

J Ma, K Li, J Tian, X Long, S Wu - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In multitarget scenarios, the masking of small targets by large targets nearby may severely
deteriorate radar detectability due to the range and Doppler sidelobes. In this article, a 2-D …

Designing random FM radar waveforms with compact spectrum

CA Mohr, SD Blunt - ICASSP 2021-2021 IEEE International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Spectrally-shaped random FM (RFM) waveforms have recently been shown to greatly
expand radar design freedom, provide good spectral containment, and are amenable to …

Designing (in) finite-alphabet sequences via shaping the radar ambiguity function

M Alaee-Kerahroodi, S Sedighi, BS MR… - ICASSP 2019-2019 …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a new framework for designing the radar transmit waveform is established
through shaping the radar Ambiguity Function (AF). Specifically, the AF of the phase coded …

Nonlinear conjugate gradient optimization of polyphase-coded FM radar waveforms

PM McCormick, SD Blunt - 2017 IEEE Radar Conference …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Polyphase-coded FM (PCFM) radar waveforms are continuous, constant amplitude, and are
represented using a discrete set of parameters. This form lends itself well to descent …

Range sidelobe level reduction with a train of diverse LFM pulses

N Neuberger, R Vehmas - IEEE Transactions on Aerospace …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Target masking is a pervasive problem in radar signal processing: the range sidelobes of
the waveform's matched filter response may cause a strong target to prevent the detection of …

Complementary frequency modulated radar waveforms and optimised receive processing

CC Jones, CA Mohr, PM McCormick… - IET radar, sonar & …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Design methodologies are developed for complementary frequency modulated
(FM) waveforms and for optimised complementary mismatched filtering (MMF) of arbitrary …