{"title":"Millimeter-wave band radiometric imaging experiments for the detection of concealed objects","authors":"H. Isiker, C. Ozdemir, Ilhami Unal","doi":"10.1109/RADARCONF.2015.7411847","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RADARCONF.2015.7411847","url":null,"abstract":"In this work, we present radiometric images for several concealed object experiments that were measured at TUBITAK - Marmara Research Center (MRC) facilities. The radiometric imaging system that collects the cosmic background radiation from the target is utilized on a 2D data collection grid to have the millimeter-wave image of the target. A detection algorithm is developed to point out the region of the hidden object beneath the cloth. The raw and processed passive millimeter wave images of various targets with concealed objects are shown after applying our detection algorithm. The resultant images have demonstrated that the passive imaging system together with our detection routine produces successful images of the targets.","PeriodicalId":267194,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Radar Conference","volume":"1 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":"127636770","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":"Analysis of the signature of rotating blades with the Empirical Mode Decomposition","authors":"Mickael Bruno, A. Balleri","doi":"10.1109/RADARCONF.2015.7411893","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RADARCONF.2015.7411893","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we present the results of an experimental trial carried out to collect data from a target with a rotating blade at X-band. We apply the Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD) to the experimental data and we investigate the information contained in the target Intrinsic Mode Functions (IMF) as a function of the blade speed of rotation, by studying their auto-correlation properties with respect to the experimental ground truth. Experimental results are complimented by a set of simulations in order to understand how the IMFs change as a function of Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR). Results show that the EMD can provide information on the angular speed of the blade.","PeriodicalId":267194,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Radar Conference","volume":"os-53 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":"127790150","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":"Passive radars utilizing pulse radars as illuminators of opportunity","authors":"P. Samczyński, P. Krysik, K. Kulpa","doi":"10.1109/RADARCONF.2015.7411874","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RADARCONF.2015.7411874","url":null,"abstract":"Much of the current research on passive radar is focused on the exploitation of commercial emitters providing continues wave illumination of surveillance area. It is also possible to exploit another kind of the illuminator - pulse surveillance radar. This paper presents the concept of passive radar exploiting the mechanically scanned foe and friend radars for providing extended radar surveillance. The paper presents theoretical analyses of coverage of single passive radar, the set of single active radars and a number of passive radars for different data fusion schemata. The results of real-life experiments conducted are also presented.","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":"125539579","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":"Klein Heidelberg: New information and insight","authors":"H. Griffiths","doi":"10.1109/RADARCONF.2015.7411939","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RADARCONF.2015.7411939","url":null,"abstract":"Klein Heidelberg was a German WW2 bistatic radar system that used the British Chain Home radars as its illumination source. A paper published in 2010 presented information from previously-classified sources on its origins and performance. Subsequently, some further information has been found, in particular concerning the dates by which the different KH stations become operational, and their performance. The purpose of this paper is to present and discuss this new information.","PeriodicalId":267194,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Radar Conference","volume":"7 11","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120840831","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}
M. Ritchie, F. Fioranelli, K. Woodbridge, H. Griffiths, L. Daniel, A. De Luca, S. Hristov, M. Gashinova, M. Cherniakov
{"title":"Simultaneous data collection of small maritime targets using multistatic and forward scatter radar","authors":"M. Ritchie, F. Fioranelli, K. Woodbridge, H. Griffiths, L. Daniel, A. De Luca, S. Hristov, M. Gashinova, M. Cherniakov","doi":"10.1109/RADARCONF.2015.7411880","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RADARCONF.2015.7411880","url":null,"abstract":"Radar detection of small maritime targets is of great interest in the context of coastal and port security for prevention of activities such as smuggling and piracy. Multistatic radar and forward scatter radar offer detection advantages compared with conventional monostatic systems, such as advantageous multi-perspective target view for the former and target radar cross section enhancement for the latter. In this paper, preliminary experimental results of simultaneous measurements to investigate the detection of a small inflatable boat by a multistatic and a forward scatter radar are presented. These results are believed to be the first example of simultaneous experimental comparison of such systems.","PeriodicalId":267194,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Radar Conference","volume":"8 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":"128891349","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":"Frequency sharing techniques in a cognitive radar","authors":"M. Lamanna","doi":"10.1109/RADARCONF.2015.7411912","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RADARCONF.2015.7411912","url":null,"abstract":"Frequency sharing is the function which allows the Cognitive Radar to perform effective wideband or ultra wideband operations, spanning several frequency channels, by working in parallel with other radar and/or communication systems. The cognitive operation, in presence of concurrent transmitters, is possible by performing two basic processes: modeling of the channel behavior and prediction of the channel occupancy. The model of the electromagnetic environment can be used to predict the future channel occupancy with enough accuracy. This model is based on the observation of the spectrum occupancy during a number of time frames, on the construction of a suitable emulator of the channel behavior and on suitable machine learning of the characteristics of the channel occupancy. This paper describes a complete chain for Frequency Channel Modeling and Prediction, composed of channel observation, channel parameter estimation and channel occupancy prediction, and evaluates the above chain in a typical case study. In order to cope with two main conflicting requirements, namely the large spectrum to be examined and the short time allocated for frequency analysis and prediction, a Compressed Sensing technique is used, in conjunction with Machine Learning for frequency occupancy forecast. We show that, in a typical case study, the use of Machine Learning can ensure a high level of efficiency in presence of a number of concurrent transmitters.","PeriodicalId":267194,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Radar Conference","volume":"86 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":"134465062","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":"Moving target detection under spatially non-homogeneous clutter for airborne phased-MIMO radar","authors":"S. Ghotbi, Moein Ahmadi, K. Mohamedpour","doi":"10.1109/RADARCONF.2015.7411859","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RADARCONF.2015.7411859","url":null,"abstract":"This paper considers the problem of moving target detection in phased-MIMO radar on an airborne platform. The generalized likelihood ratio test has been employed for the detection. The proposed detector employs the clutter subspace information and maximum likelihood parameters estimation in order to improve its performance in strong clutter environments. First, a space-time signal model for phased-MIMO radar with arbitrary antennas placements in three-dimensional space is presented. According to the space-time characteristics of clutter and clutter ridge slope, the clutter subspace matrix for ground clutter is presented. The generalized maximum likelihood detector for detection of moving target signal in the presence of clutter signal with known subspace matrix and colored noise is obtained. It is shown that it has the constant false alarm rate property. The performance of the proposed detector is validated by simulation results.","PeriodicalId":267194,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Radar Conference","volume":"5 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":"132432955","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":"Sparse recovery of radar echo signals using Adaptive Backtracking Matching Pursuit","authors":"S. Narayanan, S. K. Sahoo, A. Makur","doi":"10.1109/RADARCONF.2015.7411904","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RADARCONF.2015.7411904","url":null,"abstract":"Compressive Sensing (CS) combines signal sampling and signal compression. CS directly acquires a signal provided it is either sparse by itself or sparse in some transform domain. In radar applications, it is not always possible to sample the radar signal ideally. Further, consecutive radar echo signals show some correlation which may be exploited. In this work, we start by modelling the radar echo signal and adopting a sensing mechanism to acquire it. For CS reconstruction, we propose Adaptive Backtracking Matching Pursuit which makes use of the `partially known support' to reconstruct the sparse version of radar echo signal.","PeriodicalId":267194,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Radar Conference","volume":"5 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":"127284010","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}
W. Kleynhans, B. P. Salmon, C. Schwegmann, L. Mdakane
{"title":"Use of sentinel-1 data for vessel detection in South African oceans : Early results","authors":"W. Kleynhans, B. P. Salmon, C. Schwegmann, L. Mdakane","doi":"10.1109/RADARCONF.2015.7411922","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RADARCONF.2015.7411922","url":null,"abstract":"This paper shows the utility of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data acquired from the recently launched Sentinel-1 satellite for the detection of vessels within the South African Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). A Sentinel-1 dual polarized (HH and HV) image acquired in Extra Wide (EW) mode over two of the busiest harbors in the country was used together with a standard Cell averaging Constant False Alarm Rate (CA-CFAR) detector to evaluate vessel detection performance for the two polarization modes taking into consideration local incident angles. Early experimental results show promising vessel detection accuracy using the Sentinel-1 data but that polarization and incidence angle are important parameters to take into consideration when working with the data.","PeriodicalId":267194,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Radar Conference","volume":"116 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":"120953678","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":"White space symbiotic radar: A new scheme for coexistence of radio communications and radar","authors":"A. Mishra, M. Inggs","doi":"10.1109/RADARCONF.2015.7411854","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RADARCONF.2015.7411854","url":null,"abstract":"There is a growing realisation that, similar to the concern about abuse of the atmosphere causing Global Warming, that the Electromagnet (EM) Spectrum is rapidly filling up, with many more applications waiting for space. This has resulted, for example, in a large scale DARPA programme to share spectrum, that we discuss. So called Passive Radars that use EM emissions from other sensors opportunistically, seem to be a potential source of relief in terms of radar applications. Up until now, the Commensal version, where the sensor uses the EM emissions from sensors without impacting the other system, have been dominant, especially in the last 10 years. However, in the case of Commensal systems, there is no attempt at collaboration, and the waveforms are seldom optimal for the sensor function. In this paper we discuss a new type of passive sensor, where there is collusion between the detection function and an underlying communication system, which we term, \"Symbiotic\". In this case, both the communications and the radar systems have a stronger case, as they are sharing the spectrum in a collaborative way. With the advent of the first cognitive radio standard, the IEEE802.22 (also known as the whitespace standard), the possibilities of using a cognitive radio network for commensal radar purpose has become bright. In this paper we propose a system level description of symbiotic EM sensor system based on White Spaces Wireless Regional Area Radio Network (WRAN). Major use of the system will be in rural and sparsely populated areas. The system can provide high speed wireless data-network of more than 10Mbps capacity to such areas. The scheme also provides capability to be used as a Radar system, which in turn can be used to detect moving objects in the area, and with signal and data processing, track them.","PeriodicalId":267194,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Radar Conference","volume":"20 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":"117081343","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}