PHASIM, an advanced phased array antenna software simulator

A sophisticated phased array simulator software package for the design and analysis of planar phased array antennas is presented. This package can accurately simulate the far-field characteristics of a large variety of planar phased array configurations in both the frequency and time domain. The simulator is coded in MATLAB version 5.3. Using...

Automatic SIMD parallelization of embedded applications based on pattern recognition

This paper investigates the potential for automatic mapping of typical embedded applications to architectures with multimedia instruction set extensions. For this purpose a (pattern matching based) code transformation engine is used, which involves a three-step process of matching, condition checking and replacing of the source code. Experiments...

Application of fiber optic interferometers for Cook-off measurements

A fiber optic interferometer comprising of a Sagnac interferometer and a Mach-Zehnder interferometer was developed. The interferometer enabled detection of explosive subtonic expansion velocities during the Cook-off test. The system enabled a comparison between the results of the two interferometer systems caused by the application of two...

Monitoring the urbanisation of Dar es Salaam using ERS SAR data

Sediment budget and tectonic evolution of the Meuse catchment in the Ardennes and the Roer Valley Rift System

The Meuse river system is located in the northeastern part of the Paris Basin, the Ardennes, and the Roer Valley Rift System (RVRS). The Meuse river system developed during the uplift of the Ardennes since the Eocene and it was affected by renewed rifting of the RVRS starting in the Late Oligocene. In response to the uplift of the Ardennes, the...

PHASIM, an advanced phased array antenna software simulator

A sophisticated phased array simulator software package for the design and analysis of planar phased array antennas is presented. This package can accurately simulate the far-field characteristics of a large variety of planar phased array configurations in both the frequency and time domain. The simulator is coded in MATLAB version 5.3. Using...

PHASIM, a sophisticated phased array antenna software simulator implemented in MATLAB 5.2

A sophisticated phased array simulator software package for the design and analysis of planar phased array antennas is presented. This simulator is coded in MATLAB version 5.2. Using MATLAB, numerical engineering problems can be solved in a fraction of time of time required by programs coded in FORTRAN or C. This paper addresses an assessment of...

Spatial and temporal regulation of DNA fragmentation in the aleurone of germinating barley

During germination of barley grains, the appearance of DNA fragmentation started in aleurone cells near the embryo and extended to the distal end in a time-dependent manner. DNA fragmentation was demonstrated to occur only after the expression of α-amylase mRNA in the aleurone layer. In addition, cell wall degradation started in cells near the...

Speckle filtering in satellite SAR change detection imagery

Repeat-pass Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery is useful for change detection. A disadvantage of SAR is the system-inherent speckle noise. This can be reduced by filtering. Various filter types and methods are described in the literature, but not one fits the speckle noise in change detection imagery. A new method is therefore developed in...

Marker-referred movement measurement with grey-scale coordinate extraction for high-resolution real-time 3D at 100 Hz

A review of early history in photography highlights the origin of cinefilm as a scientific tool for image-based measurement of human and animal motion. The paper is concerned with scanned-area video sensors (CCD) and a computer interface for the real-time, high-resolution extraction of image coordinates of moving markers. Algorithms and...

Engineering Multirate Convolutions for Radar Imaging

We present a schematic design methodology for multirate convolution systems, based on combined algorithmic development and architecture design. It allows us to map the algebraic specification of a long convolution algorithm directly onto efficient fast convolution hardware based on short FFT processor elements or dedicated VLSI processors. The...

Finapres tracking of systolic pressure and baroreflex sensitivity improved by waveform filtering

Objective. Arterial pressure waveforms distort between brachial and finger arteries, causing differences mainly in systolic pressure. Distortion, reportedly, can be removed by applying a waveform filter to the finger pressure. Design. We analysed the data from two studies that detected discrepancies in systolic tracking between Finapres and...

A single Chip Implementation for Fast Convolution of Long Sequences

Usually, long convolutions are computed by programmable DSP boards using long FFTs. Typical operational requirements such as minimum power dissipation, minimum volume and high dynamic range/accuracy, make this solution often inefficient and even unacceptable. In this paper we present a single chip floating point solution for large convolution...

Efficient adaptive fuzzy control scheme

The paper presents an adaptive nonlinear (state-) feedback control structure, where the nonlinearities are implemented as smooth fuzzy mappings defined as rule sets. The fine tuning and adaption of the controller is realized by an indirect adaptive scheme, which modifies the parameters of the fuzzy mapping. The performance index gradients are...

Optimal control of the dissolved oxygen concentration in an airlift-loop reactor

A model to describe the oxygen transfer in an airlift-loop reactor (ALR) is developed in order to build an optimal digital control algorithm for the dissolved oxygen concentration. Thereafter the model is discretized in place and time resulting in a set of linear difference equations. These equations are used to implement an optimal linear...

A unified control strategy for the active reduction of sound and vibration

The generalized minimum variance (GMV) control strategy is proposed as an effective strategy for active sound and vibration control systems. The GMV strategy is shown to unify well-known adaptive filtering approaches based on LMS-type algorithms and purely feedback strategies as used in other types of control systems. The shortcomings of the LMS...

Classification of Agricultural Crops in Radar Images

For the past few years an accurate X-band SLAR system with digital recording has been available in The Netherlands. The images of this system are corrected to indicate radar backscatter coefficients (gamma) instead of arbitrary greytones. In 1980 a radar measurement campaign was organized in the Flevopolder area. Ground-based measurements were...

A class of high-pass digital MTI filters with nonuniform PRF

A class of digital feed-forward filters is developed, satisfying the requirement of a maximally flat stopband characteristic at zero frequency if the pulse-repetition frequency is modulated. A simple algorithm is given to obtain the filter coefficients. Some properties are summarized