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A GNU Radio Based Software-Defined Radar

Patton, Lee K.

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2007, Master of Science in Engineering (MSEgr), Wright State University, Electrical Engineering.
GNU Radio is an open source software-defined radio project, and the Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP) is hardware designed specifically for use with GNU Radio. Together, these two technologies have been used to implement very sophisticated, yet low cost, software-defined radios. Since software-defined radio and software-defined radar are really one in the same technologies, it stands to reason that GNU Radio and the USRP could be utilized to form a low cost radar sensor. In this thesis, we discuss the design of a prototype software-defined radar, built using the open source GNU Radio and open specification USRP projects. The prototype design is introduced, followed by the results of laboratory testing. A discussion on the expected operational performance of the prototype is then provided. The thesis concludes with the development and analysis of a waveform optimization algorithm that is capable of improving signal to interference plus noise ratio in the presence of a band-limited interferer. The low computational complexity of this algorithm make it amenable to software-defined radar.
Brian Rigling (Advisor)
125 p.

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  • Patton, L. K. (2007). A GNU Radio Based Software-Defined Radar [Master's thesis, Wright State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1176142845

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Patton, Lee. A GNU Radio Based Software-Defined Radar. 2007. Wright State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1176142845.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Patton, Lee. "A GNU Radio Based Software-Defined Radar." Master's thesis, Wright State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1176142845

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)