Tham khảo tài liệu 'radar technolog part 2', kỹ thuật - công nghệ, cơ khí - chế tạo máy phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Radar Performance of Ultra Wideband Waveforms 17 Fig. 13. Measuring radar system performance. The transmitter output is connected to the receiver input via a cable and an attenuator Internal coupling The internal coupling should be measured by terminating both the transmitter output and the receiver input to their characteristic impedances. Then a normal radar measurement should be done. The coupling should be characterized by its maximum signal level given in dBm and its slope given in dB ns . The internal coupling should be as low as possible and the slope as steep as possible. Receiver noise The measurement above can also be used to measure the receiver noise level. The internal coupling will slope downward as a function of travel time in the radar receiver window. At a certain time the signal will level out and become horizontal. The level of this horizontal part in the receiver is the receiver noise level. Since the receiver is calibrated in dBm the noise level can be measured in dBm and should be compared with the theoretical value given by equation 4. The receiver thermal noise level will depend on the integration time of the radar system. System Dynamic Range - SDR The difference between the measured transmitted power and the measured receiver noise is the System Dynamic Range. The SDR gives a measure for how much loss the radar wave can have and still be detectable in the radar receiver. This is a key measure for the performance of the radar system. The SDR is dependent on the radar integration time. If the integration time is made 10 times longer then the SDR will increase by 10 dB. Receiver Dynamic Range - RDR The difference between the ADC full scale value and the noise level is called the Receiver Dynamic Range. This value tells us what signal difference there can be between two reflected signals and that both can be imaged in the receiver window. Increasing the integration increases the RDR. 18 Radar Technology Spurious free .
