Improved range and lag coverage for radar measurements of overspread targets by unmatched filtering of alternating codes

摘要

We propose that by using unmatched decoding for alternating codes, estimates of the autocorrelation function of the backscatter can be estimated at ranges between those resolved by matched filtering. The number of additional correlation estimates obtained in this way is twice that obtained using matched filtering, although each estimate contributes with only a quarter of the power in comparison. This leads to improvements in code performance by a factor of 1.5, and an increase in the speed of incoherent scatter radar experiments by the same factor.