Developing tools for processing *etR&D Data

y' Umur +at"ree Supervisor' Prof. ,.R. -nggs

Radar Remote Sensing Group

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-ntroduction
. /!0ective' To develop t"e tools t"at will process t"e raw, uncompressed data from *etR&D . User re1uirements'
To allow t"e user to view t"e data To apply pulse compression to t"e data

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ac2ground
. *etR&D' 34node radar operating in t"e S4!and 56.7 G8)9 . Developed !y UCT and UC: . Trials in Peace"aven, England to assess performance . Trials in Simons Town for !istatic measurements . Data received and sampled !y %$$ ,8) %64!it &DC
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Ta!le %' Parameters for *etR&D

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digitally4generated' linear ;, c"irp, ar2er codes, polyp"ase codes, etc

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T"e *etR&D Processor

. /ctave was c"osen as a means of developing t"e *etR&D Processor . & user interface was used upon w"ic" t"e processing tools would !e !uilt . TeCt4!ased medium
Radar Remote Sensing Group

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T"e Data Diewer

. ?as used to plot t"e data !efore or after pulse compression . Gives a 64D plot of t"e w"ole data set using a colour sc"eme . &llows a user selected pulse from t"e data set to !e viewed . Gives user t"e option to save t"e plot as a png file
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Pulse Compression
. Re1uired t"e use of matc"ed filtering . Synt"etic c"irp was defined for t"e reference pulse . ?as implemented in t"e fre1uency domain . lac2man window was incorporated
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;igure %' Plot of data for *ode % during 6$t" &pril 6$%% trial
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;igure 6' Plot of data for *ode % during 6$t" &pril 6$%% trial after pulse compression
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Conclusion
. T"e *etR&D Processor "as s"own its capa!ility of viewing and processing a typical *etR&D data set . -t can "ave more functions !uilt into it . -mproved range resolution and S*R after matc"ed filtering
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;uture scope
. Sensitivity time control 5STC9 to remove range dependency of target returns . Dealing wit" wi4fi interference . &utomatic range determination and summary information on plot
Radar Remote Sensing Group

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T"an2 you very muc"E

Dept. Electrical Engineering, University of Cape Town Private ag, Ronde!osc", ##$%, Sout" &frica "ttp'((www.uct.ac.)a

Radar Remote Sensing Group