Leveraging software-defined radio techniques in multichannel digital weather radar receiver design

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1571-1582

  Meier, John ^a   Kelley, Redmond ^a   Isom, Bradley M ^a,b   Yeary, Mark ^b   Palmer, Robert D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b University of Oklahoma   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric measurements; coherent receiver; multirate digital filters; radar; remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERTERS; ATMOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT; BAND-PASS SAMPLING; BASE BANDS; COHERENT RECEIVERS; DIGITAL BEAM FORMING; IN-PHASE; LOW POWER; MULTI RATE; MULTI-CHANNEL; OTHER APPLICATIONS; PHASED ARRAY RADARS; RADIO FREQUENCIES; SIDE-LOBE CANCELLATION; SOFTWARE-DEFINED RADIOS; SUBARRAY;

DESIGN; DIGITAL FILTERS; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; RADAR; RADAR RECEIVERS; REMOTE SENSING; SIGNAL SAMPLING;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

EID: 84861188533     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2011.2178670     Document Type: Article

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