Extraction of polyphase radar modulation parameters using a Wigner-Viille distribution - Radon transform

Often used in low probability of intercept continuous waveform (CW) emitters, polyphase modulations can have extremely long code lengths (large processing gain), good sidelobe performance and robust Doppler tolerance. This paper presents an efficient algorithm to autonomously extract the polyphase radar modulation parameters from an intercepted waveform using a Wigner-Ville Radon transform. Results show that our method results in a small relative error in the extracted parameters for signal-to-noise ratios as low as - 6dB.