A scalable real-time processing chain for radar exploiting illuminators of opportunity

This thesis details the design of a processing chain and system software for a commensal radar system, that is, a radar that makes use of illuminators of opportunity to provide the transmitted waveform. The stages of data acquisition from receiver back-end, direct path interference and clutter suppression, range/Doppler processing and target detection are described and targeted to general purpose commercial off-the-shelf computing hardware. A detailed low level design of such a processing chain for commensal radar which includes both processing stages and processing stage interactions has, to date, not been presented in the Literature. Furthermore, a novel deployment configuration for a networked multi-site FM broadcast band commensal radar system is presented in which the reference and surveillance channels are record at separate locations.

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

Department of Electrical Engineering

Year dc:date.issued

2014

Author dc:creator

• Tong, Craig Andrew

Advisors dc:contributor.advisor

• Inggs, Michael
• Mishra, Amit

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12996

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/12996