RFSoC-Based Integrated Navigation and Sensing Using NavIC

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Autori principali: Sachdeva, Riya, Tewari, Aakanksha, Darak, Sumit J., Ram, Shobha Sundar, Biswas, Sanat K.
Natura: Preprint
Pubblicazione: 2026
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author Sachdeva, Riya
Tewari, Aakanksha
Darak, Sumit J.
Ram, Shobha Sundar
Biswas, Sanat K.
author_facet Sachdeva, Riya
Tewari, Aakanksha
Darak, Sumit J.
Ram, Shobha Sundar
Biswas, Sanat K.
contents Prior art has proposed a secondary application for Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) infrastructure for remote sensing of ground-based and maritime targets. Here, a passive radar receiver is deployed to detect uncooperative targets on Earth's surface by capturing ground-reflected satellite signals. This work demonstrates a hardware prototype of an L-band Navigation with Indian Constellation (NavIC) satellite-based remote sensing receiver system mounted on an AMD Zynq radio frequency system-on-chip (RFSoC) platform. Two synchronized receiver channels are introduced for capturing the direct signal (DS) from the satellite and ground-reflected signal (GRS) returns from targets. These signals are processed on the ARM processor and field programmable gate array (FPGA) of the RFSoC to generate delay-Doppler maps of the ground-based targets. The performance is first validated in a loop-back configuration of the RFSoC. Next, the DS and GRS signals are emulated by the output from two ports of the Keysight Arbitrary Waveform Generator (AWG) and interfaced with the RFSoC where the signals are subsequently processed to obtain the delay-Doppler maps. The performance is validated for different signal-to-noise ratios (SNR).
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spellingShingle RFSoC-Based Integrated Navigation and Sensing Using NavIC
Sachdeva, Riya
Tewari, Aakanksha
Darak, Sumit J.
Ram, Shobha Sundar
Biswas, Sanat K.
Signal Processing
Prior art has proposed a secondary application for Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) infrastructure for remote sensing of ground-based and maritime targets. Here, a passive radar receiver is deployed to detect uncooperative targets on Earth's surface by capturing ground-reflected satellite signals. This work demonstrates a hardware prototype of an L-band Navigation with Indian Constellation (NavIC) satellite-based remote sensing receiver system mounted on an AMD Zynq radio frequency system-on-chip (RFSoC) platform. Two synchronized receiver channels are introduced for capturing the direct signal (DS) from the satellite and ground-reflected signal (GRS) returns from targets. These signals are processed on the ARM processor and field programmable gate array (FPGA) of the RFSoC to generate delay-Doppler maps of the ground-based targets. The performance is first validated in a loop-back configuration of the RFSoC. Next, the DS and GRS signals are emulated by the output from two ports of the Keysight Arbitrary Waveform Generator (AWG) and interfaced with the RFSoC where the signals are subsequently processed to obtain the delay-Doppler maps. The performance is validated for different signal-to-noise ratios (SNR).
title RFSoC-Based Integrated Navigation and Sensing Using NavIC
topic Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.08596