Joint MTI and ISAR RADAR for intelligent transport system

Abstract

Research works are initiated worldwide towards the development of Software defined radar (SDR) system operating jointly to change radar modes from Inverse synthetic aperture RADAR (ISAR) imaging to moving target indication (MTI), or adapt its waveform based on environmental conditions and/or information derived from previous RADAR interrogations. These adaptations can be performed manually or they may be automated through software. In the later case the system becomes cognitive RADAR. In this paper, we designed a joint moving target indication (MTI) and Inverse synthetic aperture RADAR (ISAR) RADAR system for intelligent transport system (ITS). We have processed the vehicular target return data using MTI to extract the velocity and also through the ISAR processing to have the location and type of vehicle information through ISAR imaging.