Grant: Engage Grants Program
Memorial University of Newfoundland
$25,000.00
Development of control and signal processing software modules in Ocean View software defined radar
FY 2014-15
Summary
This project will focus on developing a radar digital signal processing (DSP) module and a system controlmodule for a high frequency surface wave radar (HFSWR) system being developed by Northern Radar Inc.(NRI) in St. John's, Newfoundland. NRI is developing this HFSWR for ocean remote sensing and potentialapplications include sea-state monitoring, iceberg tracking and tsunami detection. This research work is aimedto design fully functional signal processing and system control modules using a compatible softwareenvironment such as C++ or python. The existing modules were initially developed using GNU radio andMATLAB interfaces for universal software radio peripheral (USRP) hardware and do not have the capability toprovide fast DSP, and parallel processing of multiple channels. To overcome this issue this project willinvestigate implementation of some of the real-time DSP using the field programmable gate arrays (FPGA)contained in the USRP devises. The implementation of the rest of the DSP and the system control moduleusing an optimized software environment such as C++ and parallel processing techniques will also improvesystem capabilities.
Program
Engage Grants Program
Recipient
Location
Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Recipient Type
Academia
Type
Grant
Source
NSERC's Awards Data
As published
Application id
476339-2014
Name nom
Mann, George
Department département
Engineering and Applied Science, Faculty of
Organization id
89
Institution établissement
Memorial University of Newfoundland
Province en
Newfoundland and Labrador
Province fr
Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador
Country en
CANADA
Country fr
CANADA
Fiscal year exercice financier
2014
Competition year année de concours
2014
Award amount
25000
Program id
EGP
Program name en
Engage Grants Program
Program name fr
Programme de subventions d'engagement partenariat
Group en
Research partnerships programs
Group fr
Programmes de partenariat
Committee code
1551
Committee name en
Atlantic Internal Decision Committee
Committee name fr
Comité de décision interne pour l'Atlantique
Area of application code
805
Area of application group en
Information and communication services
Area of application group fr
Services d'information et de télécommunications
Area of application en
Communications technologies (satellites, radar, etc.)
Area of application fr
Technologie des télécommunications (satellites, radar,etc.)
Research subject code
2514
Research subject group en
Electrical and electronic engineering
Research subject group fr
Génie électrique et électronique
Research subject en
Digital signal processing
Research subject fr
Traitement des signaux numériques
Partie
1
Nb partie
1
Application title
Development of control and signal processing software modules in Ocean View software defined radar
Keyword
NSERC
Application summary
This project will focus on developing a radar digital signal processing (DSP) module and a system controlmodule for a high frequency surface wave radar (HFSWR) system being developed by Northern Radar Inc.(NRI) in St. John's, Newfoundland. NRI is developing this HFSWR for ocean remote sensing and potentialapplications include sea-state monitoring, iceberg tracking and tsunami detection. This research work is aimedto design fully functional signal processing and system control modules using a compatible softwareenvironment such as C++ or python. The existing modules were initially developed using GNU radio andMATLAB interfaces for universal software radio peripheral (USRP) hardware and do not have the capability toprovide fast DSP, and parallel processing of multiple channels. To overcome this issue this project willinvestigate implementation of some of the real-time DSP using the field programmable gate arrays (FPGA)contained in the USRP devises. The implementation of the rest of the DSP and the system control moduleusing an optimized software environment such as C++ and parallel processing techniques will also improvesystem capabilities.
