Group-complementary code sets for implementing pulse compression with desirable range resolution properties

This paper describes the structure and properties of a waveform design technique intended to provide desirable range resolution properties in radar sensor systems. The waveform design, called group-complementary coding, consists of groups of binary sequences which can be used for bi-phase coding of a radar carrier pulsed waveform. When pulse compression processing is extended to include the composite of a number of pulses through coherent integration, then group-complementary coding provides the often desirable property of complete range sidelobe cancellation (for zero Doppler shift).