Title
Phase-Coded Stepped Frequency Linear Frequency Modulated Waveform Synthesis Technique for Low Altitude Ultra-Wideband Synthetic Aperture Radar.
Abstract
This paper discusses a new waveform synthesis technique particularly suitable for low altitude ultra-wideband (UWB) synthetic aperture radar (SAR) systems. The proposed technique synthesizes a phase coded UWB chirp by transmitting a burst of coherent phase-coded sub-band chirp pulses and combining the collected echoes using a special digital signal processing (DSP) algorithm. A lab prototype is built for the feasibility study and validation of the proposed technique. From the results, it is clearly shown that 1) the proposed technique can synthesize UWB chirp pulses; 2) the proposed DSP algorithm can combine the collected sub-band echoes into an echo of a wider bandwidth; and 3) the proposed technique can improve the range resolution of the SAR system without altering much of its system design. The main advantage of the proposed technique is that it can improve the range resolution of an existing SAR system without the need to increase the baseband bandwidth of the system.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1109/ACCESS.2017.2700994
IEEE ACCESS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Chirp modulation,field programmable gate arrays,radar equipment,synthetic aperture radar,ultra-wideband radar
Pulse-Doppler radar,Continuous-wave radar,Radar imaging,Baseband,Telecommunications,Computer science,Synthetic aperture radar,Electronic engineering,Inverse synthetic aperture radar,Chirp,Chirp spread spectrum,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
5
2169-3536
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
2
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ming Yam Chua142.26
Voon Chet Koo2185.18
Heng-Siong Lim3459.65
Josaphat Tetuko Sri Sumantyo43012.78