A 50-800 MHz stepped frequency continuous wave ground penetrating radar

Author

Farquharson, G. ; Langman, A. ; Inngs, M.R.

Author_Institution

Radar Remote Sensing Group, Cape Town Univ., Rondebosch, South Africa

fYear

1998

fDate

7-8 Sep 1998

Firstpage

455

Lastpage

460

Abstract

With the advent of cheaper, RF integrated circuit devices, it has now becoming feasible to build portable stepped frequency, ground penetrating radars based on heterodyne architectures. These overcome the problems encountered in the homodyne systems, and the performance limiting factors that do exist, are able to be more effectively controlled. This paper presents the design of a 50-800 MHz stepped frequency continuous wave ground penetrating radar based on a heterodyne architecture. It discusses architectural benefits of heterodyne receivers, the implementation of the stepped frequency synthesizers and transceiver and presents performance predictions for the system

Keywords

CW radar; buried object detection; frequency synthesizers; heterodyne detection; radar receivers; radar signal processing; transceivers; 50 to 800 MHz; RF integrated circuit devices; ground penetrating radar; heterodyne architectures; heterodyne receivers; stepped frequency continuous wave radar; stepped frequency synthesizers; transceiver; Costs; Finite impulse response filter; Frequency measurement; Frequency synthesizers; Ground penetrating radar; Noise measurement; Power harmonic filters; Radio frequency; Temperature measurement; Transceivers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications and Signal Processing, 1998. COMSIG '98. Proceedings of the 1998 South African Symposium on

Conference_Location

Rondebosch

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5054-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/COMSIG.1998.737004

Filename

737004