Citation

Chua, Ming Yam and Koo, Voon Chet and Lim, Heng Siong and Chan, Yee Kit (2020) An FPGA based Real-Time Multi-Target Synthetic Aperture Radar Echoes Synthesizer. Journal of Engineering Technology and Applied Physics, 2 (2). pp. 10-16. ISSN 2682-8383

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Abstract

This paper proposes a technique for synthesizing multiple point target scatterer Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) echoes in real-time. Traditional approaches require high computation resources to calculate the complex SAR echoes due to its complex mathematical model. The proposed technique employs the low computation Direct Digital Synthesis (DDS) approach to generate these complex sinusoid echoes. The proposed Synthetic Aperture Radar Echoes Synthesizer (SARES) is capable of synthesizing SAR echoes accurately in realtime and was built in a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) platform. The system can be used as a testbed to validate and evaluate the performance of a real-time SAR processing algorithms/system prior to the actual flight mission. This could help in reducing the frequency of flight trials and to reduce the SAR system development risk especially for satelliteborne SAR system.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) echoes, Direct Digital Synthesis (DDS), Field programmable gate array (FPGA)
Subjects:	T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering > TK5101-6720 Telecommunication. Including telegraphy, telephone, radio, radar, television
Divisions:	Faculty of Engineering and Technology (FET)
Depositing User:	Ms Rosnani Abd Wahab
Date Deposited:	04 Oct 2021 02:43
Last Modified:	04 Oct 2021 02:43
URII:	http://shdl.mmu.edu.my/id/eprint/8455

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