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Efficient Digital Spotlighting Phase History Re-Centering Hardware Implementation

Christman, Jordan Louis
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2952-9162
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1480934083897465

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2016, Master of Science (M.S.), University of Dayton, Electrical Engineering.
This thesis focuses on the study of the SAR algorithm digital spotlighting and the hardware implementation of the phase history re-centering portion of the algorithm. The phase history re-centering portion of the digital spotlighting algorithm re-centers the phase history data with respect to the new scene center. This thesis provides a solution that allows for a single precision implementation of the phase history re-centering in hardware that provides comparable results to that of a double precision implementation. In order to attain a higher order of precision the frequency sample values were scaled. Scaling the frequency samples allows the use of single precision floating point data types while maintaining on average 8 decimal places of precision when compared to a double precision floating point data type implementation. By using single precision floating point data types a resource reduction of 46% can be achieved when compared to a double precision floating point data types. The hardware implementation of the phase history re-centering core provides a possible 36X speed up when compared to the MATLAB implementation. Leveraging this design would be a major step towards implementing the entire digital spotlighting algorithm on a low SWAP(Size Weight and Power) system. This low SWAP system may include platforms such as UAV's or any other SWAP constrained system.
Eric Balster (Advisor)
83 p.
Electrical Engineering; Engineering
Synthetic Aperture Radar; Digital Spotlighting; DSP Builder; Radar Signal Processing

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  • Christman, J. L. (2016). Efficient Digital Spotlighting Phase History Re-Centering Hardware Implementation [Master's thesis, University of Dayton]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1480934083897465

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Christman, Jordan. Efficient Digital Spotlighting Phase History Re-Centering Hardware Implementation. 2016. University of Dayton, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1480934083897465.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Christman, Jordan. "Efficient Digital Spotlighting Phase History Re-Centering Hardware Implementation." Master's thesis, University of Dayton, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1480934083897465

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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