{"title":"Over-the-air deramping for multistatic perimeter surveillance","authors":"M. Ash, M. Ritchie, P. Brennan, K. Chetty","doi":"10.1109/RADARCONF.2015.7411855","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RADARCONF.2015.7411855","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores the use of an over-the-air deramping (OTAD) system as a solution for perimeter surveillance. Over-the-air deramping is a technique for wirelessly synchronising distributed passive FMCW radar nodes to a dual-frequency master FMCW transmitter node. Such a system allows simultaneous monostatic and multistatic measurements for improved clutter resilience, and multiple looks at a target for reduced susceptibility to signal fading due to target scintillation. To prove the latter, a simultaneous monostatic and OTAD bistatic node were set up with a 5 m baseline and a walking person was measured. The results show that signal fading occurs in both the monostatic and the bistatic node, but rarely at the same time. Hence, combining the measurements from the two nodes gives a consistent response from the target. This demonstrates OTAD as a compelling system for a robust perimeter surveillance system.","PeriodicalId":267194,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Radar Conference","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128008660","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":"Comparison of square law, linear and bessel detectors for CA and OS CFAR algorithms","authors":"Asem Melebari, A. Mishra, M. Y. Abdul Gaffar","doi":"10.1109/RADARCONF.2015.7411913","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RADARCONF.2015.7411913","url":null,"abstract":"A major challenge in radar detection is to optimize both the detection performance and computation cost. In Constant False Alarm Rate (CFAR) algorithms, different detectors can be implemented like linear, square law or Bessel detectors. These detectors have difference detection performances and computational costs. In this paper, the detection performances of these three detectors are investigated for CA-CFAR and Order Statistic CFAR (OS-CFAR) algorithms using simulated and measured data of semi-urban desert terrain. Monte Carlo simulation was used to compute the performance in both Gaussian noise and Weibull interference. Results obtained using both simulated and measured data show that the square law detector offers superior performance to the linear and Bessel detector for the OS-CFAR algorithm. In the case of the CA-CFAR algorithm, the square law detector offers the best performance for large values of the Weibull shape parameter. When the Weibull shape parameter is small, the linear detector offers the best performance.","PeriodicalId":267194,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Radar Conference","volume":"89 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126733181","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}
H. Hellsten, C. Claesson, P. Dammert, Hannes Illipe
{"title":"Adaptation of foliage penetration radar to remove interference to in-band communication","authors":"H. Hellsten, C. Claesson, P. Dammert, Hannes Illipe","doi":"10.1109/RADARCONF.2015.7411935","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RADARCONF.2015.7411935","url":null,"abstract":"Methods are described enabling low frequency ultra wide band foliage penetration (FOPEN) radar signals to be notched at the precise frequencies of conflict with in-band wireless services. The goal is that radar transmit power levels should be on par with environmental noise for receivers of these services, implying that no degradation of the services will be perceived.","PeriodicalId":267194,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Radar Conference","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114582458","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":"Integrated system of mini-SAR real-time signal processing and data storage","authors":"H. Tian, Wenge Chang, Xiangyang Li","doi":"10.1109/RADARCONF.2015.7411907","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RADARCONF.2015.7411907","url":null,"abstract":"Real-time signal processor and data storage system of radar are often large, weighty and high power consumption, which cannot satisfy the requirement of the miniature SAR system. To solve this issue, firstly, this paper analyzes system demands on the computational capability, the storage capacity and the I/O bandwidth. Then, the method that the real time signal processor and data storage system are integrated on one board is presented. A combination structure with a monolithic FPGA, a monolithic DSP, and CF card is presented to realize the function of the real-time signal processing and the data storage. Three approaches relative to the computational capability, I/O bandwidth and storage capacity are presented to meet the requirements of miniature SAR in this paper. In addition, for the issue of the abnormal response time in the data writing of the CF card, the data buffer of radar data during the response time is realized by the multiplexing of DDR3 SDRAM. Finally the function and performance of the integrated system are tested on the experimental Ku band FMCW SAR. The results show that the integrated system generates the imaging data with the range swath of 800 m in real time and stores the SAR data with the fastest rate over 100MB/s. In addition, the system has the weight of 700 gram, the power consumption less than 16 W.","PeriodicalId":267194,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Radar Conference","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116616538","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 performance model for target tracking with a radar network","authors":"R. Nadjiasngar, A. Charlish","doi":"10.1109/RADARCONF.2015.7411887","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RADARCONF.2015.7411887","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a performance model based on covariance analysis for target tracking with a radar network. The model enables the average expected estimation error and temporal resource loading to be calculated for varying operational parameters. This performance model can be used for radar network resource management and is especially suited to quality of service management methods. The performance model is used to demonstrate the benefit of additional nodes in a radar network as well as the influence of the radars to target geometry on the estimation error. The necessity of a resource management mechanism that effectively balances the allocation of the network resources is highlighted.","PeriodicalId":267194,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Radar Conference","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116853809","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}
Shengqi Liu, Ronghui Zhan, Wang Wei, Qinglin Zhai, Zhang Jun
{"title":"Full-polarization HRRP recognition based on joint sparse representation","authors":"Shengqi Liu, Ronghui Zhan, Wang Wei, Qinglin Zhai, Zhang Jun","doi":"10.1109/RADARCONF.2015.7411903","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RADARCONF.2015.7411903","url":null,"abstract":"Full-polarization high range resolution profile (FPHRRP) contains rich information regarding the signatures of a target which can be extracted for target recognition. The four polarization combinations data are correlated for they characterize the same target from a specific aspect angle using different polarization modes. To efficiently utilize the information for recognition performance enhancement, a joint sparse representation (JSR) based method for FPHRRP recognition is presented. Each single-polarization HRRP is represented by the atoms which are adaptively selected from its corresponding dictionary, and these atoms derived from different dictionaries have the same index set. Compared to conventional methods, the proposed method has the significant advantage of exploiting the correlation among single-polarization HRRPs to boost recognition performance. The experiment results show that the proposed method achieves promising recognition accuracy and is robust with respect to noisy observations.","PeriodicalId":267194,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Radar Conference","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126812701","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":"Comparison of distributions for real and synthetic aperture sea-clutter","authors":"L. Rosenberg, S. Angélliaume, A. Fiche","doi":"10.1109/RADARCONF.2015.7411865","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RADARCONF.2015.7411865","url":null,"abstract":"Modeling sea clutter is a difficult problem due to interaction of the sea surface characteristics (wind speed, wind direction), the geometry of acquisition (grazing angle, azimuth angle) and radar parameters (frequency, polarisation and resolution). In synthetic aperture radar imagery, the effect of coherent averaging and motion from the sea will also influence the statistics. The goal of this paper is to examine the effect of image formation on the radar backscatter of the X-band Ingara medium grazing angle data set. A number of recently developed distributions are considered for modelling the amplitude statistics including the K+Rayleigh and Pareto+noise, both of which account for thermal noise.","PeriodicalId":267194,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Radar Conference","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114193083","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":"High range resolution with stepped FM in subapertured MIMO","authors":"D. Deb, R. Bhattacharjee, A. Vengadarajan","doi":"10.1109/RADARCONF.2015.7411851","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RADARCONF.2015.7411851","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes to use stepped FM for different transmit subapertures for achieving high range resolution. Use of stepped FM for different sub-apertures provides the capability of Doppler processing and the proposed scheme is motivated by the use of stepped FM across pulses as proposed in literature. It enables Doppler processing and also partially mitigates the limitation of target velocity compensation. The paper also studies the effect of timing misalignment between subapertures and its effect on range resolution performance.","PeriodicalId":267194,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Radar Conference","volume":"56 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131637762","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":"Two target localization using passive monopulse radar","authors":"Seifallah Jardak, Sajid Ahmed, Mohamed-Slim Alouini","doi":"10.1109/RADARCONF.2015.7411878","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RADARCONF.2015.7411878","url":null,"abstract":"The simultaneous lobing technique, also known as monopulse technique, has been widely used for fast target localization and tracking purposes. Many works focused on accurately localizing one or two targets laying within a narrow beam centered around the monopulse antenna boresight direction. In this work, however, a new approach uses the outputs of a four quadrant antenna receiver to rapidly localize two point targets present in the hemisphere. A second set of antennas can be required to localize two targets sharing the same elevation or azimuth angles. To combine the outputs of both antenna sets and enhance the estimation performance of the algorithm, two methods are presented and compared.","PeriodicalId":267194,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Radar Conference","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131752686","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":"Opportunities and current drivers for passive radar research","authors":"J. Palmer, D. Cristallini, H. Kuschel","doi":"10.1109/RADARCONF.2015.7411870","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RADARCONF.2015.7411870","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a summary of the current research directions and applications of passive radar. It is derived from the recent PCL Focus Days workshop, radar conferences and recent literature. The purpose of this paper (and its associated presentation) is to provide some background and context for the papers that are to be presented in the special session on Passive Radar.","PeriodicalId":267194,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Radar Conference","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127855945","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}