Title :
Development of a high precision timing and control unit for Synthetic Aperture Radar
Author :
Boey Huey Shen ; Lim Tien Sze ; Koo Voon Chet ; Lee, Fabian Kung Wai
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Eng. & Technol., Multimedia Univ., Ayer Keroh, Malaysia
Abstract :
This paper discusses the design and development of an Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) based timing and control unit for high resolution Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR). The unit controls sub modules of SAR such as the timing of the chirp generator, the data acquisition module, the motion compensation module and any other modules that requires a control signal. The control signal supplied can be in the form of a signal window or a trigger pulse.
Keywords :
autonomous aerial vehicles; data acquisition; field programmable gate arrays; motion compensation; synthetic aperture radar; timing; FPGA; UAV; chirp generator; control unit; data acquisition module; field programmable gate array; high precision timing; high resolution unmanned aerial vehicle; motion compensation module; signal window; synthetic aperture radar; trigger pulse; Accuracy; Chirp; Field programmable gate arrays; Radiation detectors; Synthetic aperture radar; Timing;
Conference_Titel :
RF and Microwave Conference (RFM), 2011 IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Seremban, Negeri Sembilan
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1628-7
DOI :
10.1109/RFM.2011.6168692
