The invention relates to the technical field of radars, in particular to a
weather radar distance resolution calibration method and
system. The method comprises the following steps: collecting
oversampling original
baseband I / Q data of a
point target in a plurality of continuous pulse periods; determining a pulse
signal-to-
noise ratio, and screening out effective pulses according to a threshold value; carrying out sub-sampling stage
time alignment on the effective pulses based on cross-
correlation analysis, and carrying out incoherent averaging on
power module values of all the aligned pulses to generate an average pulse
power envelope; converting the average pulse
power envelope to a logarithm domain, and selecting discrete data points in a
main lobe region; according to the discrete data points, a nonlinear least square method is adopted to carry out iterative fitting on the generalized
Gaussian mathematical model, and a continuous analytic function describing the
pulse envelope is obtained; according to the continuous analytic function, determining a
pulse time width when the power is reduced to a
peak value of-6dB; and determining the real distance resolution according to the
pulse time width. The measurement robustness is improved, and sub-meter calibration precision is achieved.