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Designing for TARA

The radar control unit

Bachelor thesis (2011)

Contributors

T. Otto (mentor)
C.M.H. Unal (mentor)
S. Placidi (mentor)
Department
Remote Sensing of the Environment
Copyright: © 2011 Van Gemert, J. Janssen, M.S. Malotaux, E.S.
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Published Date

19-06-2011

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Faculty

Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science

Department

Remote Sensing of the Environment

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.

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