Simulation of Coherent Radar Imaging Using Continuous Wave Noise Radar

Authors

Jing Xu, University of Nebraska at Lincoln
Michael Hoffman, University of Nebraska - LincolnFollow
B.L. Cheong, University of Oklahoma, Norman
R.D. Palmer, University of Oklahoma, Norman

Date of this Version

2009

Citation

JOURNAL OF ATMOSPHERIC AND OCEANIC TECHNOLOGY VOLUME 26 1956-1967

DOI: 10.1175/2009JTECHA1194.1

Comments

2009 American Meteorological Society

Abstract

A computationally simple cross-correlation model for multiple backscattering from a continuous wave (CW) noise radar is developed and verified with theoretical analysis and brute-force time-domain simulations. Based on this cross-correlation model, a modification of an existing numerical method originally developed by Holdsworth and Reid for spaced antenna (SA) pulsed radar is used to simulate the estimated cross correlation corresponding to atmospheric backscattering using a coherent CW noise radar. Subse- quently, coherent radar imaging (CRI) processing comparisons between the CW noise radar and a con- ventional pulsed radar are presented that verify the potential of CW noise radar for atmospheric imaging.