• DocumentCode
    1287958
  • Title

    Integrated sidelobe energy reduction technique using optimal polyphase codes

  • Author

    Lee, W.K. ; Griffiths, H.D. ; Benjamin, R.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., London Univ., UK
  • Volume
    35
  • Issue
    24
  • fYear
    1999
  • fDate
    11/25/1999 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    2090
  • Lastpage
    2091
  • Abstract
    For the distributed targets arising in most synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images, it is the integrated sidelobe (ISL) energy rather than the peak sidelobe level (PSL) that governs the performance of the pulse compression processing. A sidelobe cancellation technique is suggested which reduces the ISL energy by eliminating a significant portion of the sidelobe pattern of the pulse compression output, while the PSL is presented at the optimal Barker-code level. The efficiency of this ISL reduction is proportional to the signal code length
  • Keywords
    pulse compression; radar imaging; synthetic aperture radar; target tracking; Barker-code level; distributed targets; integrated sidelobe energy reduction technique; optimal polyphase codes; pulse compression output; pulse compression processing; sidelobe pattern; signal code length; synthetic aperture radar images;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el:19991451
  • Filename
    815911