Experimental Evaluation of SZ(8/64) Phase Coding with Censoring for Range-Velocity Ambiguity Mitigation
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The Doppler Dilemma or range-velocity folding of echoes from uniformly spaced transmit pulse trains of weather radar poses a fundamental limit on radar data quality: there is a limited unambiguous range for echos and there is a maximum unambiguous velocity. The radar pulse repetition time may be adjusted to increase either the unambiguous range or the maximum unambiguous velocity but the other necessarily will decrease. Phase coding of the transmit pulses is one technique that can mitigate the Doppler Dilemma. Experimental results using S-Pol, NCAR’s research S-Band radar, illustrate the technique.
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