Real-time software implementation of Passive Radar

Author

Szumski, Karol ; Malanowski, Mateusz ; Kulpa, Janusz ; Porczyk, Wojciech ; Kulpa, Krzysztof

Author_Institution

Inst. of Electron. Syst., Warsaw Univ. of Technol., Warsaw, Poland

fYear

2009

fDate

Sept. 30 2009-Oct. 2 2009

Firstpage

33

Lastpage

36

Abstract

The paper presents a comparison of three different computing platforms for signal processing in Passive Coherent Location radar: general-purpose PC, Sony Play Station 3 and NVIDIA graphic card with CUDA technology. The radar under consideration was developed at Warsaw University of Technology, and it is called PaRaDe (Passive Radar Demonstrator). It utilizes commercial FM radio transmitters as illuminators of opportunity to detect and track airborne targets. In order to perform real-time processing, high computing power is needed. The aim of this paper was to investigate various solutions providing good performance at a reasonable price.

Keywords

airborne radar; passive radar; radar signal processing; radar target recognition; radar tracking; target tracking; CUDA technology; FM radio transmitters; NVIDIA graphic card; PaRaDe; Sony Play Station 3; Warsaw University of Technology; airborne targets; general-purpose PC; passive coherent location radar; passive radar demonstrator; real-time software implementation; signal processing; Antenna arrays; Array signal processing; Dipole antennas; Filters; Graphics; Paper technology; Passive radar; Radar detection; Radar signal processing; Radio transmitters;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radar Conference, 2009. EuRAD 2009. European

Conference_Location

Rome

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4747-3

Type

conf

Filename

5307010