A Simple Signal Processing Architecture for Instantaneous Radar Polarimetry

  • Authors:

  • S. D. Howard;A. R. Calderbank;W. Moran

  • Affiliations:

  • Defence Sci. & Technol. Organ., Edinburgh;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

This paper describes a new radar primitive that enables instantaneous radar polarimetry at essentially no increase in signal processing complexity. This primitive coordinates transmission of distinct waveforms on orthogonal polarizations and applies a unitary matched filter bank on receive. This avoids the information loss inherent in single-channel matched filters. A further advantage of this scheme is the elimination of range sidelobes