{"title":"The WSP: a modular architecture for high performance signal processing (for radar)","authors":"J. Jackson, S.S. Sinor","doi":"10.1109/NRC.1988.10955","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRC.1988.10955","url":null,"abstract":"The authors briefly introduce the Westinghouse Signal Processor (WSP) architecture with emphasis on the manner in which various very high-speed integrated circuits (VHSICs) signals and data processing assets can be incorporated into the architecture to meet unique radar sensor requirements. Individual modules and sets of modules usable within this architecture are detailed. A software development facility (SDF) with software facilities to aid the hardware/software integration phase of application development is described and the steps involved in development of an application are illustrated with an example. The WSP is shown to be an open, modular architecture, fully Ada-programmable, with the capability to be configured at 10 billion operations per second (BOPS) of signal processing throughput and up to 80 million instructions per second (MIPS) of 32-b, general-purpose computing.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":237192,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 1988 IEEE National Radar Conference","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123955919","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A dual-threshold radar detection system","authors":"K. Hammerle","doi":"10.1109/NRC.1988.10954","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRC.1988.10954","url":null,"abstract":"It is known that the beam agility of a phased-array radar can be utilized to enhance target detection capability as compared to a radar which has the same power but which radiates its energy uniformly over the solid angle being surveilled. A dual-threshold approach for realizing this enhancement is examined. Quantitative results are presented parametrically for four signal fluctuation models. The study also identifies the optimum combination of dual-threshold design parameters for each target model under a wide range of imposed system constraints such as the allowed number of false alarms per beam position. It is shown that under certain imposed constraints, no enhancement is possible.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":237192,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 1988 IEEE National Radar Conference","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122197501","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
B. Akam, R. Deane, M. Sartori, R. Lowry, B. Mercer
{"title":"An integrated radar imaging system for the STAR-2 aircraft","authors":"B. Akam, R. Deane, M. Sartori, R. Lowry, B. Mercer","doi":"10.1109/NRC.1988.10925","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRC.1988.10925","url":null,"abstract":"A commercial lightweight, real-time digital synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) known as STAR-2 (sea-lice and terrain assessment radar) is described. The SAR system consists of the MacDonald Dettwiler integrated radar imaging system (IRIS) and is carried aboard a small executive twin-turboprop aircraft. The IRIS makes extensive use of digital electronics to provide data of high radiometric and geometric quality, in real time. The radar is an X-band HH polarized system that has an along-track (azimuth) pixel size of 6 m, and a choice of 4-m or 5-m slant range pixel size, yielding a swath width of 16 or 62 km. The data is processed to seven independent looks, to ensure high radiometric quality in the image. The system has a large dynamic range and this ensures that the radar can be used not only for terrain mapping, but also for detection of point targets. Along-track and across-track position errors have been reduced to the order of 30 m.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":237192,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 1988 IEEE National Radar Conference","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125010374","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Preliminary results from the NASA/JPL multifrequency, multipolarization synthetic aperture radar","authors":"D. Held, W. Brown, T. Miller","doi":"10.1109/NRC.1988.10921","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRC.1988.10921","url":null,"abstract":"A brief description is given of the three-frequency polarimetric synthetic-aperture radar built and tested at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The radar has the capability to simultaneously acquire fully polarimetric data at P-, L-, and C-bands from a DC-8 airborne platform. The radar has an instantaneous data rate of approximately 2.1 Gb/s and has selectable record rates between 80-240 Mb/s. The system has a wide dynamic range featuring 8-b analog-to-digital converters and full digital floating-point processing. The processing is accomplished offline on a minicomputer system assisted by an array processor. Sample images are presented.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":237192,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 1988 IEEE National Radar Conference","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127369592","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}