Designing for TARA: The radar control unit

Title

Designing for TARA: The radar control unit

 Author

Van Gemert, J.
Janssen, M.S.
Malotaux, E.S.

Contributor

Dufournet, Y. (mentor)
Otto, T. (mentor)
Unal, C.M.H. (mentor)
Placidi, S. (mentor)
Van der Zwan, W.F. (mentor)

Faculty

Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science

 Department

Remote Sensing of the Environment

 Date

2011-06-19

 Abstract

This thesis describes the work done on a control system for the Transportable Atmospheric RAdar (TARA), which is located at the Cabauw Experimental Site for Atmosperic Research (CESAR). It describes the way in which this radar control unit was implemented within the TARA, by making use of a high-level programming language. The control unit consists of a PXI-system of National Instruments, LabVIEW software, a DDS from Analog Devices and provided Matlab code. The project resulted in a working prototype. The TARA itself is a FM-CW radar with the possibility of sending and receiving in multiple polarizations and orientations for weather measurements. The system was tested and most functions worked properly. During the test, the measurements with the new system generated the same data as the current system. This proved that the system is working correctly, which is of great importance for the ATMOS group, because they are planning to transport the TARA to a measurement campaign in France in 2012 using the upgraded system.

 Subject

TARA
Radar Control
LabVIEW
FM-CW
ATMOS
PXI
DDS

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Student theses

 Document type

bachelor thesis

 Rights

(c) 2011 Van Gemert, J.
Janssen, M.S.
Malotaux, E.S.
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