Roberto Palumbo, W. Al-Ashwal, B. Ferguson, C. McCarroll, D. McLaughlin
{"title":"Weather and bushfire observation using low cost X-band phased array radars","authors":"Roberto Palumbo, W. Al-Ashwal, B. Ferguson, C. McCarroll, D. McLaughlin","doi":"10.1109/RADAR.2013.6652004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RADAR.2013.6652004","url":null,"abstract":"Small-scale, low-cost X-band radars are an emerging technology that offer significant advantages over traditional large-scale systems for weather and remote sensing applications. X-band radars provide enhanced angular resolution at a fraction of the aperture size compared to larger, lower frequency systems. Because of their low cost and small form factor, these radars can now be integrated into more research and commercial applications. This paper presents the research activities currently underway using a low-cost, X-band (9.41 GHz) Phase-Tilt Radar. The “phase-tilt” design is a novel architecture that allows for rapid electronic scanning in azimuth and mechanical tilting in elevation, as a compromise between cost and performance. This paper presents the relevant background information on the technology, as well as some initial studies and field work on the research activities performed.","PeriodicalId":365285,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Radar","volume":"198 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121576507","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":"Clutter Identification for weather radars CPA,TDBZ and wavelet comparisons","authors":"S. T. Nguyen, Ruiting Yang, D. Gray, P. May","doi":"10.1109/RADAR.2013.6651996","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RADAR.2013.6651996","url":null,"abstract":"Ground clutter can seriously degrade the performance of weather radars at low elevation. Algorithms such as the clutter phase alignment (CPA) and texture of reflectivity (TBDZ) are commonly used to identify regions of range-azimuth weather radar maps containing ground clutter. In this paper the use of a wavelet based approach is proposed and experimental ROC curves comparing the performance of the three approaches on data from a typical C-band weather radar are compared.","PeriodicalId":365285,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Radar","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133430789","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}
D. Petri, C. Moscardini, M. Conti, A. Capria, J. Palmer, S. Searle
{"title":"The effects of DVB-T SFN data on passive radar signal processing","authors":"D. Petri, C. Moscardini, M. Conti, A. Capria, J. Palmer, S. Searle","doi":"10.1109/RADAR.2013.6651999","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RADAR.2013.6651999","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we compare and contrast code, time and spatial domain signal processing techniques for mitigating the effects of the ambiguities present in single frequency network digital broadcast signals in passive radar. By performing these additional processing steps, the number of ambiguities present in the range Doppler scene will be reduced by approximately one third or a half (situation dependant). We also compare and contrast different combinations of temporal and spatial signal processing and demonstrate using real data that adaptive beamforming combined with temporal signal processing gives the greatest SINR performance.","PeriodicalId":365285,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Radar","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123223288","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":"Microwave radar imaging of rotating blades","authors":"H. Tran, R. Melino, P. Berry, D. Yau","doi":"10.1109/RADAR.2013.6651985","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RADAR.2013.6651985","url":null,"abstract":"Microwave radar imaging of rotating blades is investigated. A significant component of the signal energy arises from the blade flashes and this can be detected and extracted from the time-domain data to form an image. The method proposed for achieving this is based upon the use of a signal model corresponding to the structural components of a blade, a form of the matched filter, a `matching pursuit' representation, and a form of the CLEAN technique. From this an image of a rotating blade can be synthesised, while the coefficients in the matching pursuit representation may be used for effective target classification. In this paper we demonstrate the techniques on data collected from rotating helicopter blades.","PeriodicalId":365285,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Radar","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127768516","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 performance prediction modelling for compound distributions with temporal correlation","authors":"L. Rosenberg, S. Bocquet","doi":"10.1109/RADAR.2013.6652019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RADAR.2013.6652019","url":null,"abstract":"Robustly predicting target detection performance in temporally correlated clutter with a fluctuating target has proven to be a difficult problem. If the correlation is not accounted for in a radar model, the required signal to interference ratio for a given probability of detection, Pd, could be incorrect by several dB, resulting in over-estimated performance. This paper describes a robust method for calculating the Pd for K, KK and Pareto compound distributions. Results are then presented using realistic parameter models for high grazing angle sea-clutter.","PeriodicalId":365285,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Radar","volume":"240 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122516921","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}
L. Maslikowski, M. Malanowski, P. Krysik, D. Gromek
{"title":"Verifcation of a SAR processor by arbitrary generation of simulated beat signal","authors":"L. Maslikowski, M. Malanowski, P. Krysik, D. Gromek","doi":"10.1109/RADAR.2013.6652051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RADAR.2013.6652051","url":null,"abstract":"The paper describes the idea of verification of a Linear Frequency Modulation - Continuous Waveform (LFM-CW) Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) processing system operating in real-time by arbitrary generation of the beat signal. The system under the test collects the beat signal from the arbitrary waveform generator, instead from the radio frequency (RF) frontend, and produces the image. Beat waveforms are prepared previously in a SAR simulator and may correspond to a variety of mission scenarios - from single scatterers and linear platform movement to complex urban scenes and perturbed trajectories of the radar carrier. With such approach the digital and software part of the SAR processor can be examined very simply and efficiently at system level.","PeriodicalId":365285,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Radar","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122836392","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":"Computationally fast AOA estimation using sparse large aperture arrays for electronic surveillance","authors":"Peter Q. C. Ly, S. D. Elton, Joy Li, D. Gray","doi":"10.1109/RADAR.2013.6652043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RADAR.2013.6652043","url":null,"abstract":"Angle-of-arrival (AOA) estimation algorithms for electronic surveillance systems are often required to be accurate, computationally fast and implemented using sparse large aperture arrays. This paper considers the speed and accuracy of the SODA and SBI interferometers [1, 2] in the context of sparse large aperture arrays and compares their performance to the conventional phaseshift beamformer and MUSIC algorithm. The performance of the algorithms will be compared through simulation and verified using experimental data.","PeriodicalId":365285,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Radar","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114378906","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}
E. Custovic, D. Elton, J. Whittington, J. Devlin, A. Console, B. Bienvenu, A. McDonald, H. Nguyen
{"title":"Improved impedance matching for SuperDARN TTFD antennas","authors":"E. Custovic, D. Elton, J. Whittington, J. Devlin, A. Console, B. Bienvenu, A. McDonald, H. Nguyen","doi":"10.1109/RADAR.2013.6652026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RADAR.2013.6652026","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a novel antenna impedance matching system used in the latest Australian SuperDARN class HF radar, at Buckland Park, South Australia. Earlier radar designs used an off-the-shelf log-periodic wideband antenna that is significantly easier to match over the SuperDARN frequency band, but expensive to buy and mount, and had limited capability for azimuthal beamforming. The newer TTFD antenna, used in many recent SuperDARN radars, offers improvement in these areas, but is in essence a narrow band antenna. It is capable of wideband operation at the cost of being difficult to match, frequency dependant, high-impedance and complex load. Previous TTFD matching transformers utilising toroids have been measured and evaluated for their suitability for the Buckland Park radar. A new system based on an LC matching network circuit has been devised to replace them. The design approach and results of the new matching circuit are detailed.","PeriodicalId":365285,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Radar","volume":"2010 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129113029","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}
T. Cooney, T. Lehmann, K. Parkinson, R. Middleton, C. D. Hall
{"title":"Transmit/receive module for L-band phased array synthetic aperture radar with polarisation control","authors":"T. Cooney, T. Lehmann, K. Parkinson, R. Middleton, C. D. Hall","doi":"10.1109/RADAR.2013.6651979","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RADAR.2013.6651979","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the design, construction and testing of a front end Transmit/Receive (T/R) module prototype for an L-band (1.215GHz-1.3GHz) synthetic aperture radar earth observation satellite which features a novel polarisation control circuit. This circuit is implemented to support the on-board Faraday Rotation compensation. Previous literature does not feature this control at L-band or in a single T/R module. The prototype consists of Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits mounted on a Printed Circuit Board, and laboratory testing shows the polarisation control mechanism functions as designed, as measured results closely match predictions.","PeriodicalId":365285,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Radar","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114816421","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":"Echoic flow for radar target interception","authors":"G. Smith, C. Baker, Gang Li","doi":"10.1109/RADAR.2013.6652042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RADAR.2013.6652042","url":null,"abstract":"This paper demonstrates how a cognitive radar exploiting echoic flow can perform target interception. The “taudot” parameter and the coupling of different echoic flow fields define interception performance. The manner in which tau-dot allows a deterministic implementation of the perception-action cycle is presented. Several simulated examples are provided demonstrating different approaches that may be take to intercept a stationary target. An analysis is provided to show that at least 24 dB of SNR is required for target interception to be reliable when using echoic flow. However, pulse integration is shown to improve this situation. Lastly a simulated example is provided that demonstrate how an accelerating target can also be intercepted without changing the underlying processing.","PeriodicalId":365285,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Radar","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130680782","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}