Cancellation of range ambiguities with block coding techniques

Abstract

This paper presents radar signaling schemes for cancellation of late time arriving echos. Signal reflections arriving delayed at the radar when the radar has already emitted a next pulse result in range ambiguities and materialize as potential false targets. In this work we propose pulse block coding techniques to distinguish echo reflections originating through the recently emitted pulse and those impending from subsequent pulses. The methods introduced require only simple matched filtering operations at the receiver and permit usage of arbitrary waveforms with potential for waveform diversity gains.