Intra-Pulse Polyphase Coding System for Second Trip Suppression in a Weather Radar

Abstract

This paper describes the design and implementation of intra-pulse polyphase codes for a weather radar system. Algorithms to generate codes with good correlation properties are discussed. Thereafter, a new design framework is described, which optimizes the polyphase code and corresponding mismatched filter, using a cost/error function, especially for weather radars. It establishes the performance of these intra-pulse techniques with specific application towards second trip removal. The developed code is implemented on NASA D3R, which is a dual-frequency, dual-polarization, Doppler weather radar system.