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Electrical and Computer Engineering

Air Force Institute of Technology

2010

Imaging systems

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Development And Evaluation Of A Multistatic Ultrawideband Random Noise Radar, Matthew E. Nelms Mar 2010

Development And Evaluation Of A Multistatic Ultrawideband Random Noise Radar, Matthew E. Nelms

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This research studies the AFIT noise network (NoNET) radar node design and the feasibility in processing the bistatic channel information of a cluster of widely distributed noise radar nodes. A system characterization is used to predict theoretical localization performance metrics. Design and integration of a distributed and central signal and data processing architecture enables the Matlab®-driven signal data acquisition, digital processing and multi-sensor image fusion. Experimental evaluation of the monostatic localization performance reveals its range measurement error standard deviation is 4.8 cm with a range resolution of 87.2(±5.9) cm. The 16-channel multistatic solution results in a 2-dimensional localization error of …


Preliminary Electrical Designs For Ctex And Afit Satellite Ground Station, Arthur L. Morse Mar 2010

Preliminary Electrical Designs For Ctex And Afit Satellite Ground Station, Arthur L. Morse

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis outlines the design of the electrical components for the space-based ChromoTomography Experiment (CTEx). CTEx is the next step in the development of high-speed chromotomography at the Air Force Institute of Technology. The electrical design of the system is challenging due to the large amount of data that is acquired by the imager and the limited resources that is inherent with space-based systems. Additional complication to the design is the need to know the angle of a spinning prism that is in the field of view very precisely for each image. Without this precise measurement any scene that is …