Antenna design & development for unmanned aerial vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar

Antenna design & development for unmanned aerial vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) has been widely used as tool for remote sensing since 1950’s. It can be applied in ocean monitoring, mining, earth surface classification, town mapping and etc. It uses microwave signal as sensing medium to obtain information of the target by analyzing the return signa...

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Main Author: Tan, Poi Ngee
Format: Thesis
Published: 2013
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TK Electrical engineering
Electronics Nuclear engineering
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spelling my-mmu-ep.59012014-12-29T05:52:51Z Antenna design & development for unmanned aerial vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar 2013-05 Tan, Poi Ngee TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) has been widely used as tool for remote sensing since 1950’s. It can be applied in ocean monitoring, mining, earth surface classification, town mapping and etc. It uses microwave signal as sensing medium to obtain information of the target by analyzing the return signal from the targets. Typically, the SAR system is carried by an airborne vehicle which flies through a scan area during which the SAR antenna will radiate microwave signal to the targets and direct the received echo to the RF receiver. In this project, the SAR system is carried by an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). Hence the choice of antenna is important where weight, space, radiation pattern and wind resistance plays an important part in the antenna design. Common airborne SAR systems adopt sidelooking scan method where the antenna elevation main beam is steered to either left or right hand side of the airborne. The easiest way to achieve sidelooking scan is by tilting the antenna position mechanically. However, this introduces complex tilting mechanism on the UAV with additional cost. 2013-05 Thesis http://shdl.mmu.edu.my/5901/ http://library.mmu.edu.my/diglib/onlinedb/dig_lib.php masters Multimedia University Faculty of Engineering and Technology
institution Multimedia University
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topic TK Electrical engineering
Electronics Nuclear engineering
spellingShingle TK Electrical engineering
Electronics Nuclear engineering
Tan, Poi Ngee
Antenna design & development for unmanned aerial vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar
description Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) has been widely used as tool for remote sensing since 1950’s. It can be applied in ocean monitoring, mining, earth surface classification, town mapping and etc. It uses microwave signal as sensing medium to obtain information of the target by analyzing the return signal from the targets. Typically, the SAR system is carried by an airborne vehicle which flies through a scan area during which the SAR antenna will radiate microwave signal to the targets and direct the received echo to the RF receiver. In this project, the SAR system is carried by an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). Hence the choice of antenna is important where weight, space, radiation pattern and wind resistance plays an important part in the antenna design. Common airborne SAR systems adopt sidelooking scan method where the antenna elevation main beam is steered to either left or right hand side of the airborne. The easiest way to achieve sidelooking scan is by tilting the antenna position mechanically. However, this introduces complex tilting mechanism on the UAV with additional cost.
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qualification_level Master's degree
author Tan, Poi Ngee
author_facet Tan, Poi Ngee
author_sort Tan, Poi Ngee
title Antenna design & development for unmanned aerial vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar
title_short Antenna design & development for unmanned aerial vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar
title_full Antenna design & development for unmanned aerial vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar
title_fullStr Antenna design & development for unmanned aerial vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar
title_full_unstemmed Antenna design & development for unmanned aerial vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar
title_sort antenna design & development for unmanned aerial vehicle synthetic aperture radar
granting_institution Multimedia University
granting_department Faculty of Engineering and Technology
publishDate 2013
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