Pulse Compression Radar using Matched Filter

Abstract

The pulse radars are mainly used for range resolution.
Range resolution will be improved by improving very short pulses. This can be possible by using pulse compression techniques. Pulse compression allows us to achieve the average transmitted power of a
relatively long pulse, while obtaining the range resolution
corresponding to a short pulse. In this paper, two analog pulse compression techniques are going to solve by analyzing the following process. The first technique is “Correlation Processor” this is mainly used in narrow band & medium band radar operations. The second
technique is “stretch Processor” which is used for extremely wide band radar operations. These two are techniques are used in matched filter along with the weighted functions (windows) in receiver.