Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of

 

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

2002

Comments

Published in 2002 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2002. IGARSS '02. Volume 5, pp. 2669–2671; doi: 10.1109/IGARSS.2002.1026736 Copyright 2002 IEEE. Used by permission.

Abstract

An airborne low-cost synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is under development at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The SAR system is an X-band, stepped-chirp frequency modulation (SCFM) radar system. One of its unique features is that the waveform generation consists of a timing-controlled D/A converter and VCO arrangement to synthesize the SCFM signal, whereby allowing for less design complexity and a much lower overall system cost. In this paper, we present a brief description of the system and some computer simulation results.

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