This study deals with a specific aspect of the well-known problem of the variation of the radar cross section of complex targets with the transmitted frequency. In particular, it considers pairs of modified Golay codes and demonstrates that-even with a modest variation of the transmitted frequency-the square complementary properties of radar returns are lost when targets are complex (i.e., made up by some point scatterers). This fact causes the range sidelobes to increase very much. A partial remedial measure to this drawback may be the simultaneous transmission of both codes by an array antenna at the same frequency.


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    Title :

    Range Sidelobes Suppression in Pulse-Compression Radar using Golay Pairs: Some Basic Limitations for Complex Targets


    Contributors:
    Galati, G. (author) / Pavan, G. (author)


    Publication date :

    2012-07-01


    Size :

    1784619 byte




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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