Multichannel imaging with the AMBER FMCW SAR
Conference: EUSAR 2014 - 10th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar
06/03/2014 - 06/05/2014 at Berlin, Germany
Proceedings: EUSAR 2014
Pages: 4Language: englishTyp: PDF
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Authors:
Otten, Matern; Rossum, Wim van; Graaf, Marcel van der; Vlothuizen, Wouter; Tan, Reinier (TNO, The Netherlands)
Abstract:
An X-band Digital Array Synthetic Aperture Radar for a Short Range Tactical UAV is presented. The Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave radar principle in combination with digital beam forming over 24 receive channels is used to achieve low power and advanced imaging SAR capabilities on small platform. Novel SAR imaging modes are discussed, and some examples are given. Real-time processing for such a system becomes a challenging task, and a practical example of an approach using GPU processing is presented in this paper.