DocumentCode
3680412
Title
Dual-channel radar for small UAVs
Author
John C Kirk;Kai Lin;Andrew Gray;Chung Hseih;Scott Darden;Winston Kwong;Uttam Majumder;Steven Scarborough;Linda Moore
Author_Institution
Goleta Star LLC, Torrance CA / USA
fYear
2012
Firstpage
277
Lastpage
282
Abstract
A Dual-Channel Radar (DCR) has been developed providing lite-weight SAR GMTI capability for Small UAVs. The prototype radar weighs 5-lbs and has demonstrated the extraction of ground moving targets (GMTs) embedded in high-resolution SAR imagery data. Sum and difference channel data is used in a DPCA algorithm to extract the GMTs and display them on the Sum channel high resolution SAR image. Heretofore this type of capability has been reserved for much larger systems such as the JSTARS. Previously small liteweight SARs featured only a single channel and only displayed SAR imagery. Now, with the advent of this new capability, SAR GMTI performance is now possible for small UAV class radars.
Keywords
"Synthetic aperture radar","Radar antennas","Clutter","Doppler effect","Radar imaging","Doppler radar"
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Waveform Diversity & Design Conference (WDD), 2012 International
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/WDD.2012.7311255
Filename
7311255
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