The paper presents a project of a low-cost prototype version of a wideband air sonar and the problems occurring during its development process. The aim of this work was to design a short range air sonar capable of creating the reflectivity map of its surroundings using an arbitrary shape wideband signal. The transmitting and receiving transducers that have been chosen for this application typically work in pulsed operation modes. Therefore, dedicated output and input circuits had to be designed to expand its capabilities without information losses. The signal generation, transmission, reception and storage are managed by a Discovery evaluation board with a STM32 microcontroller. The receiving data are saved on a SD card and are processed off-line.
The modelling of FMCW SAR systems, due to long signal duration time, commonly used start-stop approximation for pulsed radars causes errors in the image. Continuous motion of the radar platform results in additional range-azimuth couplings and range walk term that should be considered in processing of signal from this type of radar. The paper presents an analysis of the following algorithms: Time Domain Correlation (TDC), Range Doppler Algorithm (RDA), and Range Migration Algorithm (RMA). The comparison of the algorithms is based on theoretical estimation of their computation complexity and the quality of images obtained on the basis of real signals of FMCW SAR systems.
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