Date of Award

2013

Degree Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science (MS)

Department

Technology

First Advisor

John P. Denton

Committee Chair

John P. Denton

Committee Member 1

Grant P. Richards

Committee Member 2

David B. Janes

Abstract

This project involves design and analysis of a 5.8 GHz laptop-based radar system. The radar system measures Doppler, ranging and forming Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images utilizing Matlab software provided from MIT Open Courseware and performs data acquisition and signal processing. The main purpose of this work is to bring new perspective to the existing radar project by increasing the ISM band frequency from 2.4 GHz to 5.8 GHz and to carry out a series of experiments on the implementation of the radar kit. Demonstrating the radar at higher operating frequency is capable of providing accurate data results in Doppler, ranging and SAR images.

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