Development of a high precision timing and control unit for Synthetic Aperture Radar

Author

Boey Huey Shen ; Lim Tien Sze ; Koo Voon Chet ; Lee, Fabian Kung Wai

Author_Institution

Fac. of Eng. & Technol., Multimedia Univ., Ayer Keroh, Malaysia

fYear

2011

fDate

12-14 Dec. 2011

Firstpage

45

Lastpage

48

Abstract

This paper discusses the design and development of an Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) based timing and control unit for high resolution Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR). The unit controls sub modules of SAR such as the timing of the chirp generator, the data acquisition module, the motion compensation module and any other modules that requires a control signal. The control signal supplied can be in the form of a signal window or a trigger pulse.

Keywords

autonomous aerial vehicles; data acquisition; field programmable gate arrays; motion compensation; synthetic aperture radar; timing; FPGA; UAV; chirp generator; control unit; data acquisition module; field programmable gate array; high precision timing; high resolution unmanned aerial vehicle; motion compensation module; signal window; synthetic aperture radar; trigger pulse; Accuracy; Chirp; Field programmable gate arrays; Radiation detectors; Synthetic aperture radar; Timing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

RF and Microwave Conference (RFM), 2011 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Seremban, Negeri Sembilan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1628-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RFM.2011.6168692

Filename

6168692