REPUBLIC OF SERBIA

MINISTRY OF DEFENCE

www.mod.gov.rs

MINISTRY OF DEFENCE

Material Resources Sector

Defensive Technologies Department

Military Technical Institute

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Application of Golay complementary waveforms in PR-15 radar: System analysis

ALEKSA J. ZEJAK

RT-RK Computer based systems, Novi Sad, Serbia, aleksa.zejak@rt-rk.com

SLOBODAN SIMIĆ

Military Academy, Belgrade, Serbia, simasimic01@gmail.com

ZORAN GOLUBIČIĆ

Peripolis – elektronika, Belgrade, Serbia, golubicic.zoran@gmail.com

Abstract: In this paper, a system analysis of needs and possible application Golay complementary waveforms in portable surveillance radar PR-15 is presented. We consider the potential advantages of pulse trains made up of pulses have different waveforms pulse to pulse. This technique provides much more freedom in the synthesis of the desired signal ambiguity function. Possible applications of waveform agility include all future pulse Doppler radars that require enhanced range Doppler processing. Radar systems presently in service would require hardware changes to implement waveform agility which would be very costly, but for future radar systems waveform agility could be implemented with software changes only.

Keywords: Ambiguity function, Golay complementary sequences.