24GHz Software Defined Radar for Verification and Comparison of Radar Ranging Methods

Abstract

In recent years, it is required to consider the appropriate radar ranging method for each application as radar is applied to various situations. For this purpose, experimental verifications and comparisons between radar ranging methods in the environments where radar should operate are very effective. However, it is generally necessary to develop radar systems one by one for the verification described above. We developed a radar system that can produce any shape of waveforms designed by operators, named as Software Defined Radar. In this paper, it is shown that Software Radar enables us to compare radar modulations for various applications.