Low-noise detector with RFI mitigation capability for the aquarius L-band scatterometer

IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Fischman, M ^a   Freedman, A ^a   McWatters, D ^a   Berkun, A ^a   Cheetham, C ^a   Chu, A ^a   Lee, S ^a   Neumann, G ^a   Paller, M ^a   Tieu, B ^a   Wirth, J ^a   Wu, C ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital receiver; Field programmable gate array (FPGA); Noise reduction; Radar target simulator; Radio frequency interference; Square law detection

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL RECEIVER; NOISE REDUCTION; RADAR TARGET SIMULATOR; RADIO FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE; SQUARE-LAW DETECTION;

ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; DETECTORS; DIGITAL RADIO; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); INSTRUMENT TESTING; LOGIC GATES; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; PARTIAL DISCHARGES; RADAR; RADIO INTERFERENCE; RADIO WAVES;

RADIO;

EID: 70349118296     PISSN: 1095323X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/AERO.2009.4839461     Document Type: Conference Paper

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