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To serve as a focal point and catalyst for
activities concerned with the research and development of advanced
radar and signal processing systems
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RSPL went through its initial development period during 1991 to
1993 and then expanded rapidly through 1996 to 1997. It is currently
in its third and mature phase of development. A synthetic aperture
radar, including RF hardware, signal processing and conditioning
hardware, digital controller, signal processing and imageenhancing
software, has been developed in-house and RSPL is now carrying out
advanced work in software and algorithm development.
The main research areas of the staff and students
revolve around synthetic aperture radar signal processing, inverse
and interferometric synthetic aperture radar signal processing and
automatic target recognition.
In the area of synthetic aperture radar signal
processing, the algorithms investigated include Range-Doppler algorithm,
Quality Phase Gradient |
Algorithm, Step Transform Time Domain Algorithm, Chip Scaling Algorithm,
Range Migration and SPECAN Algorithms. The algorithms investigated
in inverse and interferometric synthetic aperture radar signal processing
include novel Stepped-frequency Signal Processing Algorithm, Spectrum
Estimation Algorithm and others.
In automatic target recognition, the algorithms
investigated include Multi-fractal Algorithm, Novel Lacunarity Estimation
Algorithm, Gliding Box-Radon Transform Algorithm and the Modified
Eigen-image Algorithm.
In the next few years, staff in RSPL will be concentrating
on a number of essential research areas such as automatic target
recognition (in SAR and ISAR), 3-D mapping (interferometric SAR)
and bi-static SAR. |
