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Sensors 2011, 11, 7162-7177; doi:10.3390/s110707162 OPEN ACCESS sensors ISSN 1424-8220 /journal/sensors Article Phase-Modulated Waveform Design for Extended Target Detection in the Presence of Clutter Xuhua Gong, Huadong Meng *, Yimin Wei and Xiqin Wang Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China; E-Mails: gongxh07@ (X.G.); weiym@ (Y.M.); wangxq_ee@ (X.W.) * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: menghd@; Tel.: +86-10-6278-1378; Fax: +86-10-6277-3837. Received: 11 May 2011; in revised form: 4 July 2011 / Accepted: 5 July 2011 / Published: 12 July 2011 Abstract: The problem to be addressed in this paper is a phase-modulated waveform design for the detection of extended targets contaminated by signal-dependent noise (clutter) and additive noise in practical radar systems. An optimal waveform design method that leads to the energy spectral density (ESD) of signal under the maximum signal-to-clutter-and-noise ratio (SCNR) criterion is introduced first. In order to make full use of the transmission power, a novel phase-iterative algorithm is then proposed for designing the phase-modulated waveform with a constant envelope, whose ESD matches the optimal one. This method is proven to be able to achieve a small SCNR loss by minimizing the mean-square spectral distance between the optimal waveform and the designed waveform. The results of extensive simulations demonstrate that our approach provides less tha