Investigating the use of a binary ADC for simultaneous range and velocity processing in a random noise radar

The Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) random noise radar (RNR) implements an ultrawideband (UWB) noise waveform with a single channel receiver and a completely digital correlation processor. Velocity resolution using traditional Doppler processing is degraded as signal bandwidth increases, requiring an alternative velocity estimation technique for the AFIT UWB phase-incoherent RNR. One such technique has been developed at AFIT but is limited by its lengthy processing time and high memory usage. To mitigate the time and memory requirements, a binary analog to digital converter (ADC) is proposed to replace the current eight-bit ADC, sufficiently cutting the signal memory to enable parallel processing and drastically reduce the overall processing time required to simultaneously estimate a target´s range and velocity.