{"title":"A chirp signal parameter estimation algorithm and its application to SAR imaging of moving targets","authors":"Liping Zhang, Yingning Peng, Jia Xu","doi":"10.1109/NRC.2003.1203406","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRC.2003.1203406","url":null,"abstract":"This paper provides a novel method for estimating the parameters of linear frequency modulated (LMF) signals, or the so called chirp signals, based on a modification to the filter bank approach of the maximum likelihood estimation. This method reduces the computational complexity of the ML method. By using numerical simulations, the performance of the new approach is verified. Also we apply the algorithm to the raw data of an X-band airborne SAR with 3 m /spl times/ 3 m resolution. Moving targets are successfully focused.","PeriodicalId":216583,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE Radar Conference (Cat. No. 03CH37474)","volume":"195 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116786196","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multi-channel signal subspace processing methods for SAR-MTI","authors":"M. Soumekh, B. Himed","doi":"10.1109/NRC.2003.1203391","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRC.2003.1203391","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines coherent signal processing methods for combining the data that are collected via multi-channel airborne radar system for MTI/GMTI. We study the methods that convert multi-channel radar data into dual along-track monopulse SAR signals of the radiated scene. A 2D adaptive filtering method, that projects the data in one synthesized SAR channel into the signal subspace of the other, is used for blind calibration of the monopulse SAR signals and generation of the MTI statistic. The merits of these algorithms are studied using the data from the multi-channel airborne radar measurement (MCARM) system that has been developed by the Air Force Research Laboratory at Rome, New York.","PeriodicalId":216583,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE Radar Conference (Cat. No. 03CH37474)","volume":"121 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126051800","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Current airborne radars of the world in the International Radar Directory CD-ROM","authors":"S. Johnston","doi":"10.1109/NRC.2003.1203372","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRC.2003.1203372","url":null,"abstract":"The International Radar Directory CD-ROM (IRD) resulted from a twenty-year collection effort by this author of open information on radars of the world. That effort identified some 9,800 radars; however, most of those numbers are no longer in use. The production IRD contains technical information on 674 current radars. Radar functions (applications) now include some 50. This paper presents a review of current airborne radars of the world and illustrates how the IRD can be used.","PeriodicalId":216583,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE Radar Conference (Cat. No. 03CH37474)","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114287740","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A moving target detection filter for an ultra-wideband radar","authors":"S. Nag, M. Barnes","doi":"10.1109/NRC.2003.1203394","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRC.2003.1203394","url":null,"abstract":"A time modulated ultra-wideband (TM-UWB) through-wall impulse radar currently has been developed at Time Domain Corporation, Huntsville, AL, which detects the motion of people in range and azimuth through non-metallic walls. The radar operates in real-time with 3Hz update rate. In order to detect the motion of people moving with different velocities, a digital moving target detection (MTD) filter has been developed which is implemented in the software of the radar. The MTD filter is an IIR high-pass filter and it helps reject the stationary (time history invariant) clutter. Results on the time vs. slow-frequency (Fourier transform of slow-time response) distribution for targets moving at different velocities are presented for a given update rate. The transfer function of the MTD filter as a function of a target velocity is also presented for a given update rate.","PeriodicalId":216583,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE Radar Conference (Cat. No. 03CH37474)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129477163","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Low sidelobe light weight microstrip antenna array for battlefield surveillance radars","authors":"U. K. Revankar, K. S. Beenamole","doi":"10.1109/NRC.2003.1203386","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRC.2003.1203386","url":null,"abstract":"The paper describes the design realisation of a (32 /spl times/ 16) element microstrip antenna array in X-band, offering high performance features applicable to battlefield surveillance radars. The new planar array configuration realised, utilises optimised inset fed square patch elements distributed on a small size aperture, with a low loss multilayer hybrid corporate feed network designed for a low sidelobe Taylor's amplitude distribution. The novel microstrip antenna array, designed, fabricated, in numbers and tested, has offered a fairly wide bandwidth (4%) in X-band, a high gain (>30 dB) with a good return loss (< -15 dB) and low sidelobe (> -25 dB) pattern performance through the bandwidth, and weighs only 1.2 kg with its back-up structure.","PeriodicalId":216583,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE Radar Conference (Cat. No. 03CH37474)","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120966171","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sidelobe response of antennas to short pulse signals","authors":"H. Griffiths, A. Cullen","doi":"10.1109/NRC.2003.1203384","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRC.2003.1203384","url":null,"abstract":"We consider the waveforms of signals received in the sidelobe region of antenna, when the signals are of very short duration. It is shown that the output signal waveforms can be very different from those of the input signal. An analytical theory is presented to explain these effects, and several examples are presented to illustrate the effects and to show the validity of the analysis. A number of applications are suggested.","PeriodicalId":216583,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE Radar Conference (Cat. No. 03CH37474)","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114076718","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wideband slot antennas for radar applications","authors":"A. Eldek, A. Elsherbeni, C.E. Smith, Kai-fong Lee","doi":"10.1109/NRC.2003.1203383","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRC.2003.1203383","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper a printed dipole antenna and three slot antennas are designed to operate at 10 GHz for use in radar systems. A parametric study of each antenna and comparison between their radiation properties including return loss, bandwidth, directivity, efficiency and radiation patterns for 6-element linear array are introduced. Microstrip slot antennas show wider bandwidth, less coupling and smaller antenna size compared with the traditional printed dipole.","PeriodicalId":216583,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE Radar Conference (Cat. No. 03CH37474)","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121601415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Terrestrial based inflatable dish antennas","authors":"L. Lowe, R. Hackett","doi":"10.1109/NRC.2003.1203415","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRC.2003.1203415","url":null,"abstract":"A terrestrial based 4.8-meter dish is presented. The dish is constructed using lightweight, thin film technologies used in spaced-based platforms. Seaming two parabolic dish films together forms a lenticular. One film is coated with a silver flake conductive paint, and the other is RF transparent. The lenticular is inflated to hold the parabolic shape of the dish. The lenticular is attached to the inside of an inflatable spherical radome. The radome provides environmental protection to the thin film lenticular. The lenticular and radome are designed such that the focal point is located on the surface of the radome. An RF feed is attached to the radome at the focal point. The gain of the dish is measured using the sun as an RF source. Solar gain measurement data is presented showing the measured peak gain from the sun and the width of the main beam.","PeriodicalId":216583,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE Radar Conference (Cat. No. 03CH37474)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132532569","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Super-resolution frequency estimation of the sinusoidal signals with unknown lowpass envelopes","authors":"F. Ge, Hao Zhang, Jian Yang, Yingning Peng","doi":"10.1109/NRC.2003.1203413","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRC.2003.1203413","url":null,"abstract":"The problem of estimating the frequency of the sinusoidal signals with low pass envelopes in the presence additive white Gaussian noise is addressed. A super-resolution frequency estimator based on the eigenanalysis and quadratic programming is proposed. The frequency estimation is achieved from the single experiment data without a priori knowledge of the lowpass envelop, which is omnipresent in many applications. The performance studies, which include the theory analysis, the numerical simulations of the mean square errors (MSEs) of the frequency estimates compared with the Cramer-Rao bound (CRB), the comparisons between the proposed method and the other representative methods, are presented.","PeriodicalId":216583,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE Radar Conference (Cat. No. 03CH37474)","volume":"1108 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133965689","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Robust STAP using reiterative censoring","authors":"K. Gerlach, M. Picciolo","doi":"10.1109/NRC.2003.1203409","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRC.2003.1203409","url":null,"abstract":"Effective methods are developed for selecting sample snapshots for the training data used to compute the adaptive weights for an adaptive match filter; specifically a space/time adaptive processing (STAP) airborne radar configuration is considered. Several new robust adaptive algorithms are presented and evaluated against interference scenarios consisting of jamming, nonhomogeneous airborne clutter (generated by the RLSTAP model), internal system noise, and outliers (which could take the form of targets themselves). These algorithms use either the generalized inner product (GIP) or the adaptive power residue (APR) metrics in reiterative fashion for culling the training data.","PeriodicalId":216583,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE Radar Conference (Cat. No. 03CH37474)","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127321567","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}