Compact digital receiver development for radar based remote sensing

Conference Record - IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1761-1765

  Yeary, M ^a,b   Kelley, R ^a,b   Meier, J ^a,b   Ong, S ^a,b   Palmer, R ^a,b  

^a Atmospheric Radar Research Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric measurements; Coherent receiver; Multi rate digital filters; Radar; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); INSTRUMENTS; MEASUREMENT THEORY; MILITARY APPLICATIONS; MILITARY RADAR; POWDERS; RADAR; RADIO; REMOTE SENSING; SPACE OPTICS; TABLE LOOKUP;

ATMOSPHERIC MEASUREMENTS; COHERENT RECEIVER; MEASUREMENT TECHNOLOGIES; MULTI-RATE DIGITAL-FILTERS; SOFTWARE-DEFINED RADIOS;

DIGITAL TO ANALOG CONVERSION;

EID: 51349136752     PISSN: 10915281     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IMTC.2008.4547329     Document Type: Conference Paper

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