Real Time GPU Accelerated Radar Scan Conversion and Visualization

The paper presents an approach for real time acquisition and scan conversion of high resolution radar data on a modern computer system using GPU based acceleration. The suggested data processing for radar scan conversion and visualization is based on an OpenCL and OpenGL data sharing model, on asynchronous data acquisition and on texture based rendering. The experimental results show a stable number of frames per second being obtained using the proposed approach for GPU accelerated data acquisition and processing. This provides relevant performance and sufficient frame rate for real time radar data visualization.

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