EEC's next generation weather radar: Solid-state polarimetric weather radar with advanced time-frequency multiplexing waveform design

Abstract

The current article introduces the novel hardware design and signal processing of EEC's latest X-band solid-state polarimetric weather radar: Ranger system (X1/X5), including the implementation of pulse compression technique with the advanced time-frequency multiplexing (TFM) waveform design. The effects/limitations of radar configurations (e.g., pulse width, transmitter power, and bandwidth) for the implementation of pulse compression/TFM and the concept of optimizing the waveform design are also discussed.