Implementation of Adaptive Pulse Compression in Solid-State Radars: Practical Considerations

This letter summarizes the applications of adaptive pulse compression (APC) in example solid-state radars for different missions. The radar examples include an X-band PX-1000 ground radar for severe weather observation, a Ku-band airborne radar for near-surface precipitation measurement, and an X-band radar experiment for air traffic observation. Representative APC algorithms are compared in terms of target estimation performance. In order to achieve the benefits of APC in actual radars, some important tradeoffs and considerations such as waveform template, sampling scheme, and noise estimation are discussed.