{"title":"Radar target identification: Estimating the start of the late time resonant response","authors":"C. Hargrave, V. Clarkson, A. Abbosh, N. Shuley","doi":"10.1109/RADAR.2013.6652009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RADAR.2013.6652009","url":null,"abstract":"Determining the correct start for the late-time or resonant response window is a crucial parameter for uncooperative, resonance-based target identification by means of ultra-wideband radar. For low resonance (low-Q) targets this is particularly vital, as the processing must be set late enough to avoid including signal data caused by early-time (non-resonant) scattering, but early enough to maximise the signal-to-noise ratio for the late-time component of the target response. Without knowledge of the target's orientation to the incident excitation, the late-time start must be determined from the signal data alone. The spectral norm of the impulse response data matrix (Hankel matrix), examined over a sliding window, provides a robust indicator of the late-time commencement.","PeriodicalId":365285,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Radar","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125949327","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":"Initial polarimetric results from the Ingara bistatic SAR experiment","authors":"A. Goh, M. Preiss, N. Stacy","doi":"10.1109/RADAR.2013.6651954","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RADAR.2013.6651954","url":null,"abstract":"The application of polarimetric techniques to bistatic SAR data is a topic of current research interest. The Australian Defence Science and Technology Organisation's Ingara multi-mode imaging radar system has previously collected a sizable set of X-band fine-resolution multi-polarimetric bistatic SAR data for research purposes. This paper presents results from a preliminary bistatic polarimetry investigation using the Ingara data which is based on an examination of the correlation between different polarisations: initial observations are presented of the scattering behaviour of a surface target over a wide range of bistatic geometries.","PeriodicalId":365285,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Radar","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121515869","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}
R. Evans, P. Farrell, G. Felic, H. T. Duong, H. V. Le, John Li, Mei Li, W. Moran, M. Morelande, E. Skafidas
{"title":"Consumer radar: Technology and limitations","authors":"R. Evans, P. Farrell, G. Felic, H. T. Duong, H. V. Le, John Li, Mei Li, W. Moran, M. Morelande, E. Skafidas","doi":"10.1109/RADAR.2013.6651953","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RADAR.2013.6651953","url":null,"abstract":"Recent advances in micro-electronics have created the possibility of building very low cost, very small, high performance single chip Radar systems. Concurrent with this technological advance, a diverse range of new applications for such radar systems is emerging. The coming consumer radar revolution is on the verge of entering the market place in areas including automotive radar, bicycle radar, micro-UAV radar, and many other applications. This short paper briefly describes the current state of the technology covering RF, signal processing and antenna systems. We also introduce recent work on performance limitations of such systems including radar information theory and its connections with quantum mechanics.","PeriodicalId":365285,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Radar","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114963818","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}
Roberto Palumbo, E. Knapp, K. Wood, D. McLaughlin, C. McCarroll, S. Frasier
{"title":"Phase-Tilt Weather Radar: Calibration and preliminary results","authors":"Roberto Palumbo, E. Knapp, K. Wood, D. McLaughlin, C. McCarroll, S. Frasier","doi":"10.1109/RADAR.2013.6652027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RADAR.2013.6652027","url":null,"abstract":"The Phase-Tilt Weather Radar is an X-band (9.41GHz) phased array radar based on a novel, low-cost architecture that mechanically tilts in elevation and electronically scans in azimuth. This architecture has been developed specifically for low-cost, small-scale radar applications and in dense radar networks. The electronic scanning in azimuth combined with mechanical elevation tilt allow for increased scan speed at severely reduced maintenance costs. This paper presents the calibration and preliminary data results of the Phase-Tilt Weather Radar. Measurements from a severe thunderstorm in Amherst, MA, US will be presented, along with initial calibration analysis and tests performed. Analysis of the data indicates good weather sensitivity and dual polarimetric performance, commensurate with similarsized, mechanical X-band radars.","PeriodicalId":365285,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Radar","volume":"15 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":"125655375","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}
C. Zech, A. Hulsmann, M. Schlechtweg, L. Georgi, H. Gulan, O. Ambacher
{"title":"A compact, universal and cost-efficient antenna setup for mmW-radar applications","authors":"C. Zech, A. Hulsmann, M. Schlechtweg, L. Georgi, H. Gulan, O. Ambacher","doi":"10.1109/RADAR.2013.6652025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RADAR.2013.6652025","url":null,"abstract":"A compact antenna setup, that can be used for e.g. radar applications, will be presented in this paper. The antenna is formed by an antipodal Vivaldi design on a 50 μm thin liquid crystal polymer (LCP) substrate. The feeding line is designed as grounded coplanar waveguide (GCPW). In the direction of radiation, the antenna is followed by a dielectric cone of high-density polyethylene (HDPE), whereby the front of the cone terminates in a radial lens shape for beamforming purposes. The presented setup is designed and built for W-band (75 to 110 GHz) operation, the concept itself can also be used for any other frequency range. Performance measurements, as well as comparisons with previous simulation results will be presented.","PeriodicalId":365285,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Radar","volume":"25 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":"129406128","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":"First results on bistatic MTI activity at fraunhofer FHR","authors":"D. Cristallini","doi":"10.1109/RADAR.2013.6652034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RADAR.2013.6652034","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper the preliminary results on bistatic MTI activities conducted at Fraunhofer FHR are presented. In particular, the bistatic experiment conducted in November 2010 is described which involved the use of a stationary transmitter and of the multi-channel system PAMIR [1] mounted on the Transall aircraft acting as moving receiver. Main challenges of the considered bistatic configuration such as local oscillators drift and clutter non-homogeneities are addressed. MTI results are presented both concerning cooperative and synthetic injected targets.","PeriodicalId":365285,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Radar","volume":"572 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":"132279072","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":"Omnistatic high frequency surface wave radar Architecture and applications","authors":"P. Marrone","doi":"10.1109/RADAR.2013.6651972","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RADAR.2013.6651972","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes an “omnistatic” high frequency surface wave radar (HFSWR) that can use a single array of antennas on a single site or be deployed over two or more sites. The term omnistatic is used to indicate it can be deployed and operated as a conventional monostatic or bistatic HFSWR or over multiple sites implementing a “multistatic” configuration. The HFSWR's architecture uses multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) techniques to provide some distinct advantages in operational performance and deployment flexibility. The paper also proposes and considers some applications for omnistatic HFSWRs using possible local deployment scenarios.","PeriodicalId":365285,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Radar","volume":"6 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":"115184395","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}
S. Rzewuski, M. Wielgo, K. Kulpa, M. Malanowski, J. Kulpa
{"title":"Multistatic passive radar based on WIFI - Results of the experiment","authors":"S. Rzewuski, M. Wielgo, K. Kulpa, M. Malanowski, J. Kulpa","doi":"10.1109/RADAR.2013.6651990","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RADAR.2013.6651990","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper results of an experiment using a multistatic passive radar system based on packet wireless network illuminators are presented. The network consists of several transmitters/receivers that operate on the same channel and exchange data with each other. The passive radar listens to the communication and performs decoding of captured frames, and determines the WiFi network node which was the source of the transmitted frame. The received data stream is divided, based upon the decoded source address, into data streams sent by each network node, after which the separated data streams are processed using classical Passive Coherent Localization methods in order to detect target presence and to localize detected targets. The paper presents details of the experiments performed and their results.","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":"125711642","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":"Simulation of rotating radar antenna impact on adjacent direction finding array","authors":"R. Shar","doi":"10.1109/RADAR.2013.6652050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RADAR.2013.6652050","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes simulation results of rotating radar antenna structures next to a direction finding antenna array. The direction finding array performance is assessed using electromagnetic simulation. The method of Direction of Arrival (DOA) estimation used is mono-pulse Amplitude Comparison.","PeriodicalId":365285,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Radar","volume":"114 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":"124771313","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. Atwater, A. Mantovanelli, A. Prytz, S. Rehder, L. Wyatt
{"title":"Operational requirements for oceanographic ground-wave HF radars: Experiences from the Australian Coastal Ocean Radar Network","authors":"D. Atwater, A. Mantovanelli, A. Prytz, S. Rehder, L. Wyatt","doi":"10.1109/RADAR.2013.6651971","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RADAR.2013.6651971","url":null,"abstract":"The Australian Coastal Ocean Radar Network, ACORN, comprises 12 radars located in pairs to provide surface current, wave and wind measurements at 6 locations around the Australian Coast. It is part of the Federally-funded Integrated Marine Observing System, IMOS. WERA phased-array radars have been installed at 4 of these locations and SeaSonde direction-finding radars at the other two. In this paper the performance of these systems, in terms of radar and metocean data availability and quality will be discussed. Some of the issues that impact on performance will be identified and possible solutions discussed with a view to developing a clear recommendation for future operational systems to augment the existing network.","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":"121100475","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}