Introduction:
RadCon-1.0 is a MS-WindowsTM based software application for a typical pulse radar’s control, configuration and data grabbing functions. This software configures an external Radar Signal Processing Unit (RSPU) for all its operational parameters and provides various modes of controlled operation of the radar system. It further grabs (using a data grabber utility) the basic processed radar echo samples from any external Radar Signal Processing Unit (RSPU) and visualizes them on a user-friendly HMI display besides saving the data for further data processing functions. RadCon-1.0 allows storage of either the time domain data and/or doppler spectral data on local or network based storage devices in a variety of formats.
RadCon-1.0 software application’s configuration module can create and save multiple configurations of parameters and modes of operation and transfer them to Radar Signal Processing Unit (RSPU) instantly. It also provides a user-friendly graphical user interface to set/change the radar Timing and Control Signal Generator (TCSG) dynamically. The TCSG configuration parameters include from very basic timing signals such as IPP marker to complex signal processing function parameters such smoothing windows, filter masks, digital down conversion parameters etc.
Typical Applications :
- Wind Profiler Radar, Doppler Weather Radar, Cloud Radar, Ionospheric Radar Systems
Software Specifications:
| Serial No. | RadCon-1.0 Input Data | Specification |
| 1 | No. of radar receive channels | 8 (Maximum) |
| 2 | Type of input data | RSPU processed digital samples (time / frequency domain) |
| 3 | Input data types | 16 or 32 bit integers or 32 bit floating point values |
| Serial No. | RadCon-1.0 Configuration Parameters | Specification |
| 1 | Radar Configuration | |
| Mode of Operation | On-line/Off-line, CW, Coded, Uncoded | |
| Frequency of operation | MHz | |
| No. of range bins | 1024 (Maximum) | |
| No. of Coherent Integrations | 4 (Minimum) | |
| No. of incoherent integrations | 1024 (Maximum) | |
| No. of FFT points | 1024 (Maximum) | |
| Pulse parameters | Pulse width (ns), baud rate (MHz) | |
| 2 | Timing | |
| IPP frequency | In KHz | |
| Data input sampling frequency | In MSPS | |
| Code pattern if input is coded | Hex code | |
| Set of timing and control parameters | SWIN, Minimum height (meter), TX Pulse, TX Code, RX Blanking, TX Blanking, TR Switch Control | |
| Beam Control | Number of Beams, Selectable Beam Sequence, Azimuth angles, Elevation angles | |
| 3 | Signal Processing Parameters | |
| Front end (RSPU) parameters | NCO frequency (MHz), down conversion factor, no. of integration filters etc. | |
| Noise threshold | dBm or automatic | |
| Adaptive filtering mask sizes | No. of range bins or doppler bins | |
| Spectral Smoothing Windows | Rectangular, Bartlett, Hamming, Hanning, Blackman, Kaiser | |
| Consensus Averaging Parameters | Mask sizes and weight values |
| Serial No. | RadCon-1.0 Output Data and Plots | Specification |
| 1 | Doppler Spectra | 2D,3D, Color Coded Power Spectra |
| 2 | Data Storage Formats | Plain unformatted text, Unformatted binary, NETCDF, BUFR |
RadCon-1.0 Output Plots (2D/3D Color Coded Time/Spectral Data :
