Software defined radio for profile reconstruction in forward scatter radar

Author

Hristov, Stanislav ; Daniel, Liam ; Gashinova, Marina

Author_Institution

Electron., Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK

fYear

2014

fDate

6-9 Oct. 2014

Firstpage

1876

Lastpage

1879

Abstract

In this paper we present research on the feasibility of the USRP™ devices to be used in the domain of Forward Scatter Radar (FSR). System design and implementation of software defined radio hardware for FSR with both quadrature Doppler channels are presented. Experimental configuration for a number of frequencies (4.2 GHz, 3.5 GHz, 2.1 GHz, 1.192 GHz) are discussed and some technical issues are highlighted. It is shown that performance of software defined radio radar satisfies the requirements for the accurate estimation of complex Doppler signal, which is compulsory for the target profile reconstruction in FSR.

Keywords

Doppler radar; radar signal processing; signal reconstruction; software radio; FSR; USRP; complex Doppler signal estimation; forward scatter radar; frequency 1.192 GHz; frequency 2.1 GHz; frequency 3.5 GHz; frequency 4.2 GHz; profile reconstruction; quadrature Doppler channels; software defined radio; Doppler effect; Doppler radar; Hardware; Radar imaging; Radar scattering; Software; bistatic radar; digital signal processors; radar equipment; radar imaging; radio transcievers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Conference (EuMC), 2014 44th European

Conference_Location

Rome

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EuMC.2014.6986827

Filename

6986827