A low-cost high-performance digital radar test bed

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 221-229

  Mir, Hasan S ^a   Albasha, Lutfi ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF SHARJAH   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Digital beamforming; digital radar; high dynamic range radar; high resolution radar; S band transceiver; stretch processing

Indexed keywords

BEAMFORMING; EQUIPMENT TESTING;

DIGITAL BEAM FORMING; DIGITAL RECEIVERS; DUAL CHANNEL; DYNAMIC RANGE; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; HARDWARE ARCHITECTURE; HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE; HIGH RESOLUTION RADAR; IN-BAND; INSTANTANEOUS BANDWIDTH; STRETCH PROCESSING; VERIFICATION RESULTS;

RADAR;

EID: 84870975041     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2012.2212497     Document Type: Article

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