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Sensors 2008, 8, 1343-1350 sensors ISSN 1424-8220 © 2008 by MDPI /sensors Full Research Paper Range and Velocity Estimation of Moving Targets Using Multiple Stepped-frequency Pulse Trains Gang Li 1,*, Huadong Meng 1, Xiang-Gen Xia 2 and Ying-Ning Peng 1 1 Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China 2 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed. Email: gangli@ Received: 2 February 2008 / Accepted: 20 February 2008 / Published: 22 February 2008 Abstract: Range and velocity estimation of moving targets using conventional stepped- frequency pulse radar may suffer from the range-Doppler coupling and the phase wrapping. To overcome these problems, this paper presents a new radar waveform named multiple stepped-frequency pulse trains and proposes a new algorithm. It is shown that by using multiple stepped-frequency pulse trains and the robust phase unwrapping theorem (RPUT), both of the range-Doppler coupling and the phase wrapping can be robustly resolved, and accordingly, the range and the velocity of a moving target can be accurately estimated. Keywords: moving target, range and velocity estimation, stepped-frequency, robust phase unwrapping 1. Introduction Range and velocity estimation of moving targets using high range resolution radar is a topic of great interest. To achie