A dedicated computer system for FM-CW radar applications

Author

Heijnen, S.H. ; van Sinttruijen, J.S ; van der Zwan, W.F. ; Ligthart, L.P.

Author_Institution

IRCTR, Delft Univ. of Technol., Netherlands

Volume

1

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

223

Abstract

In this paper, a DSP based computer system for FM-CW radar applications is described. Besides data acquisition and storage, the computer system can be used for front-end data processing and system control. Processing includes filtering and clutter suppression. The radar for which the computer is designed is a multi parameter atmospheric profiler capable of doing Doppler and polarimetric measurements. The computer system allows for a measurement of the full polarimetric scattering matrix over 512 range cells and 512 Doppler cells in 2 sec. Radar system control includes the timing and the settings of the radar system together with linearity correction of the sweep oscillator

Keywords

CW radar; Doppler radar; FM radar; atmospheric measuring apparatus; interference suppression; meteorological radar; radar clutter; radar computing; radar polarimetry; radar signal processing; remote sensing by radar; 2 to 50 MHz; 3.3 GHz; DSP based computer system; Doppler measurements; FM-CW radar applications; clutter suppression; data acquisition; data storage; dedicated computer system; filtering; front-end data processing; multi parameter atmospheric profiler; polarimetric measurements; polarimetric scattering matrix; radar system control; radar system settings; radar system timing; sweep oscillator linearity correction; system control; Atmospheric measurements; Control systems; Data acquisition; Data processing; Digital signal processing; Doppler radar; Filtering; Process control; Radar applications; Radar polarimetry;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwaves, Radar and Wireless Communications. 2000. MIKON-2000. 13th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wroclaw

Print_ISBN

83-906662-3-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MIKON.2000.913912

Filename

913912