A novel design method of radar phase code signals truncated with low sidelobes(TLS sequence)for avoiding range eclipse is proposed to solve the range eclipse problem of single base station radars. The range eclipse is caused by the incompletely received echo signals from far or near. Firstly
a nonlinear code mapping relation is established to minimize the autocorrelative sidelobe peak or energy of the updated sequence. Then
a phase code signal with short code-length is randomly generated as an initial sequence. Finally
the established mapping relation is used to obtain the TLS sequence with any given code-length from the initial sequence
and the cross-correlation peak of the resulting sequence set is estimated. Simulation results and comparisons with m-sequence and other well-known sequences show that the average of autocorrelative sidelobe peak of the whole effective sub-signals truncated from a TLS sequence after pulse compression reduces by about 5 dB
and the resulting sequence set has a low cross-correlation peak
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