Software defined radio for profile reconstruction in Forward Scatter Radar

Author

Hristov, Stanislav ; Daniel, Luca ; Gashinova, M.

Author_Institution

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

fYear

2014

fDate

8-10 Oct. 2014

Firstpage

573

Lastpage

576

Abstract

In this paper we present research on the feasibility of the USRP^TM 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; object detection; radar detection; radar signal processing; signal reconstruction; software radio; wireless channels; FSR domain; USRP device; complex Doppler signal estimation; forward scatter radar; quadrature Doppler channel; software defined radio hardware; software defined radio radar; target detection; target profile reconstruction; universal software radio peripheral; 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

European Radar Conference (EuRAD), 2014 11th

Conference_Location

Rome

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EuRAD.2014.6991335

Filename

6991335