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COMPACT AIRBORNE SOLID-STATE 95 GHZ FMCW RADAR SYSTEM
James B. Mead* and Ivan PopStefanija, ProSensing Inc.
Pavlos Kollias and Bruce Albrecht, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric
Science, University of Miami
Robert Bluth, Naval Post Graduate School Center for Interdisciplinary Remotely
Piloted Aircraft Studies (CIRPAS).
INTRODUCTION
ProSensing Inc. has developed a low power solid state W-band radar,
shown in Figure 1, for airborne measurements of clouds and precipitation.
The system
employs a simple homodyne receiver design in a palm sized package that
minimized the number of components and system power consumption. An FPGA-based
digital
receiver /signal processor computes range profiles of reflectivity and
pulse-pair derived velocity products at PRF's up to 14 kHz. Engineering
test flights of the radar were carried out in September, 2002, on the CIRPAS
Twin Otter, with the first airborne experiments planned for the summer
of 2003....
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