Engineering topics

Paz, I.

Publications and source records attributed to Paz, I..

4 records

NASA NTRS1989

Design of an orbital debris radar ground demonstration

A breadboard radar system is being designed and tested at NASA Johnson for dealing with the space debris problem that could present a growing threat to Space Station Freedom. The major design problems are due to the small radar cross section of such debris (below -30 dBm2), the high closing velocities of the particles with respect to the Space Station (10 km/sec and higher), and the stringent weight, power-consumption, maintenance, and reliability constraints on spaceborne systems. Consideration is given to the preliminary implementation of a ground demonstration radar for testing concepts, technologies, and performance envelopes for application to the space-borne debris detection and tracking radar. Simulation results and techniques developed for predicting system performance and for evaluating antenna parameters are given. The design process of the electronically steered phased array antenna is briefly described, and block diagrams for the implementation of the radar system are given.

Paz, I.↗

NASA NTRS1975

The effect of intersymbol interference on the performance of FM digital systems

The error performance of a digital FM system is investigated in the presence of additive Gaussian noise and intersymbol interference. The digital system considered is a conventional modulator and a limiter discriminator followed by a low-pass filter as the demodulator. The approach used here follows the one suggested by Mazo and Salz (1966) and extends their results to signals significantly distorted by band-limited channels.

Papantoni-Kazakos, P.↗

NASA NTRS1974

A technique for correcting transmission errors in delta modulation channels

The delta modulator is a relatively new device which has found wide application in voice encoding. Two main difficulties in using this device for video encoding and processing is that it slope overloads and 'rings' and that channel errors produce a DC level shift. An algorithm is developed which is easily implemented and which significantly reduces 'picture streaks' due to the production of DC level shifts by channel errors. The algorithm can be made adaptive whereby the insertion rate of the pulse code modulation (PCM) codeword needed for correction can be adjusted depending on the strength of the channel noise. This yields a more efficient use of bandwidth. Further, the resulting signal can still be processed further using line-to-line correlation to remove the remaining 'streaks'.

Ali, M. Z.↗

NASA NTRS1973

Overshoot suppression in Adaptive Delta Modulator links for video transmission

An overshoot suppression scheme to improve the performance of the Digital Song Adaptive Delta Modulator for picture transmission is described. The overshoot suppression algorithm has been verified using computer simulation on a PDP-8. It is also shown that the additional hardware required for the actual implementation of the algorithm is simpler than those encountered in the literature, and gives better signal tracking accuracy.

Weiss, L.↗