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http://dx.doi.org/10.7780/kjrs.2019.35.3.4

A Method on the Improvement of the Signal Processing Calculation Structure of the Remote Measurement Level Meter  

Park, Dongkun (Hanwha Systems)
Lee, Kijun (Department of Electronics Engineering, Chungnam National University)
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Korean Journal of Remote Sensing / v.35, no.3, 2019 , pp. 389-400 More about this Journal
Abstract
Level meters are non-invasively capable of measuring the level of the medium, and a growing variety of level meters are being used in the industry in connection with safety and maintenance. The level meter can be measured according to various kinds of medium such as solid medium such as coal, flour, rice and liquid medium such as water and petroleum. In order to reduce the error depending on the medium, the measurement using the Doppler Effect can compensate the measurement error, However, the number of signal processing steps is increased, the operation speed is further increased, the hardware complexity increases, and a high cost structure is required. In this paper, we propose a method to improve the signal processing operation structure of the remote measurement level meter to reduce the amount of computation and the resource usage of the required FPGA.
Keywords
Level meter; FMCW; Radar; Signal Processing; Calculation Structure;
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