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However, existing navigation modulations face the challenges of high acquisition complexity and do not improve measurement precision at the same signal strength. We propose a pulsed orthogonal time frequency space (Pulse-OTFS) signal, which naturally converts continuous signals into pulses through a special delay-Doppler domain pseudorandom noise (PRN) code sequence arrangement. The performance evaluation indicates that the proposed signal reduces at least 89.4% of the acquisition complexity. The delay measurement accuracy is about 8 dB better than that of the traditional binary phase shift keying (BPSK) signals with the same bandwidth. It also provides superior compatibility and anti-multipath performance. The advantages of fast acquisition and high-precision measurement are verified by processing the real signal in the developed software receiver. 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