A method for the detection of a pulse of a signal received by a receiver device, the received signal corresponding to data emitted with a predetermined period T.sub.c, each piece of data being encoded by a presence or an absence of a pulse. The method includes: temporally offsetting of the received signal according to a predetermined number N.sub.s of delays corresponding to different multiples of T.sub.c, so as to generate N.sub.s delayed signals; correlating, at a time that is a candidate for the detection of a pulse, the received signal with each of the delayed signals, in so as to obtain N.sub.s correlation values associated with the candidate time; calculating a maximum correlation value among the N.sub.s correlation values associated with the candidate time; and detecting a pulse of the received signal according to the maximum correlation value.

A method for the detection of a pulse of a signal received by a receiver device, the received signal corresponding to data emitted with a predetermined period T.sub.c, each piece of data being encoded by a presence or an absence of a pulse. The method includes: temporally offsetting of the received signal according to a predetermined number N.sub.s of delays corresponding to different multiples of T.sub.c, so as to generate N.sub.s delayed signals; correlating, at a time that is a candidate for the detection of a pulse, the received signal with each of the delayed signals, in so as to obtain N.sub.s correlation values associated with the candidate time; calculating a maximum correlation value among the N.sub.s correlation values associated with the candidate time; and

detecting a pulse of the received signal according to the maximum correlation value.