Novel non-coherent integration method using binary phase-coded radar signal

The m series with 511 bits is taken as an example being applied in non-coherent integration algorithm. A method to choose the bi-phase code is presented, which is 15 kinds of codes are picked out of 511 kinds of m series to do non-coherent integration. It is indicated that the power increasing times of larger target sidelobe is less than the power increasing times of smaller target mainlobe because of the larger target's pseudo-randomness. Smaller target is integrated from larger target sidelobe, which strengthens the detection capability of radar for smaller targets. According to the sidelobes distributing characteristic, a method is presented in this paper to remove the estimated sidelobes mean value for signal detection after non-coherent integration. Simulation results present that the SNR of small target can be improved approximately 6.5 dB by the proposed method.