A wideband harmonic radar for tracking small wood frogs

Author

Aumann, Herbert M. ; Emanetoglu, Nuri W.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Maine, Orono, ME, USA

fYear

2014

fDate

19-23 May 2014

Abstract

A wideband harmonic radar for tracking very small wood frogs in a high clutter environment is described. The one watt peak power radar transmitted in the 5.8 GHz ISM band and received in the 12 GHz satellite TV band. By transmitting a 150 MHz bandwidth linear frequency modulated waveform and exploiting the frequency doubling property of the harmonic tag to increase the bandwidth to 300 MHz, a range resolution of 1.6 feet was demonstrated. Furthermore, by resolving transmitter leakage and multipath, and by coherently integrating the tag return, the wideband harmonic radar sensitivity was improved by 20 dB over a comparable CW harmonic radar.

Keywords

frequency modulation; radar clutter; radar tracking; radar transmitters; CW harmonic radar; ISM band; bandwidth 150 MHz; frequency 12 GHz; frequency 5.8 GHz; frequency doubling property; harmonic tag; high clutter environment; linear frequency modulated waveform; satellite TV band; small wood frogs; tag return; transmitter leakage; wideband harmonic radar; Frequency modulation; Harmonic analysis; Radar antennas; Radar tracking; Spaceborne radar; Wideband;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radar Conference, 2014 IEEE

Conference_Location

Cincinnati, OH

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-2034-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RADAR.2014.6875565

Filename

6875565