{"title":"Performance of an ATR index module against MSTAR data","authors":"D. Cyganski, J. Kilian, D. Fraser","doi":"10.1109/NRC.1999.767277","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRC.1999.767277","url":null,"abstract":"We present a performance analysis of an indexing module contained in an automatic target recognition (ATR) system developed at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). The linear signal decomposition/direction of arrival (LSD/DOA) technique provides a low computational-cost indexing function for pose in ATR applications. The LSD/DOA technique forms a reduced-size, essential-information object data set which implicitly incorporates target and sensor variation specific data. To control the computational costs, the system consists of two independent components: a computationally expensive off-line component which forms the object representation and a computationally inexpensive on-line object recognition component. The size of the stored data set may also be adjusted providing a means to trade off complexity versus performance. Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data collected as part of the Moving and Stationary Target Acquisition and Recognition (MSTAR) program has been released to the public, providing an opportunity for ATR performance assessment against a standard high quality data set. We present the results of a number of simulated tests against the MSTAR public database to demonstrate the performance of the LSD/DOA index module on a given target along with the performance of the WPI ATR itself as a function of the depression angle and target configuration.","PeriodicalId":411890,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE Radar Conference. Radar into the Next Millennium (Cat. No.99CH36249)","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117174426","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":"Dual-speed SAR imaging of moving targets","authors":"Genyuan Wang, X. Xia, V. Chen","doi":"10.1109/NRC.1999.767324","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRC.1999.767324","url":null,"abstract":"In conventional synthetic aperture radar (SAR) systems, the image of a moving target is usually mislocated. In this paper, a dual-speed SAR imaging approach, i.e., the radar platform flies with two different speeds in the radar observation time duration, is proposed to resolve the above two problems, especially the mislocation problem. We also propose several practical approaches to the realization of the dual-speed radar platform. Some simulation results are given.","PeriodicalId":411890,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE Radar Conference. Radar into the Next Millennium (Cat. No.99CH36249)","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120980068","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":"3 kW L band mode S solid state transmitter (STX2000)","authors":"P. Grandgeorge, P. Eudeline","doi":"10.1109/NRC.1999.767307","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRC.1999.767307","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes a L band solid state pulsed transmitter which has been developed to equip a new mode S station for air traffic control in the frame of the programme POEMS (Pre-Operational European Mode S Station). The STX2000 transmitter was designed with the new available technologies to meet the mode S requirements defined by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) but it is also compatible with the present air traffic communication system. Compared to the old generation, it typically delivers more power (3 kW peak at 1030 MHz) to a 2 channel rotating antenna: sum channel (directional propagation) and control channel (omnidirectional propagation) with the capability of a dynamic output power attenuation (0 dB to 12 dB) in order to modify the radar range according to the aircraft position. The maximum 2400 mode S interrogations per second can be transmitted on the sum channel with a duty cycle which can reach 64% during 4.8 ms (96 consecutive made S interrogations). Regarding the air traffic control application, a precise safety analysis defined tests that have to be run in operation to report any failure which may affect the system performance and to protect the transmitter itself (for instance, output RF transistor junction temperature measurements).","PeriodicalId":411890,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE Radar Conference. Radar into the Next Millennium (Cat. No.99CH36249)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114283784","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":"3-D interferometric ISAR images for scattering diagnosis of complex radar targets","authors":"Xiaojian Xu, H. Luo, Peikang Huang","doi":"10.1109/NRC.1999.767328","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRC.1999.767328","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a three-dimensional (3D) interferometric inverse-synthetic-aperture-radar (In-ISAR) image processing for high-frequency electromagnetic scattering prediction of complex targets. The high-frequency electromagnetic scattering is obtained through physical optics (PO) and physical theory of diffraction (PTD). The two-dimensional (2-D) ISAR images are obtained from the frequency-azimuth space data, and the 3-D In-ISAR images are derived from two ISAR images at different incidental altitudes. Results are shown for a three-point simple target and a generic aircraft model.","PeriodicalId":411890,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE Radar Conference. Radar into the Next Millennium (Cat. No.99CH36249)","volume":"267 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124343383","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.C. Earl, D. Moulin, R.L. Landran, H.G. Leney, R. Rifkin
{"title":"Digital dispersive delay line replacement for legacy radars","authors":"D.C. Earl, D. Moulin, R.L. Landran, H.G. Leney, R. Rifkin","doi":"10.1109/NRC.1999.767197","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRC.1999.767197","url":null,"abstract":"Some legacy phased array radars use analog dispersive delay lines to expand and compress their FM chirp waveforms. These acoustic-based devices are often no longer available. This paper describes the design of a functionally equivalent digital replacement for one of these analog delay lines. Various design options were considered including IF versus baseband processing, time domain versus frequency domain filtering, and COTS boards versus custom ASICs. The system design issues of dynamic range, chirp impulse response design, delay line processing latency, and the effect of mismatch between the transmitter and receiver were addressed. The main challenge of the board level design was to meet the digital signal processing computational demands within the inherently short analog delay line latency. This ultimately required developing a custom VLSI signal processing chip. The 1.3 million transistor ASIC chip performs a 1024 tap finite-impulse response (FIR) filter running at an estimated 2 Msps. The configurable architecture of the ASIC allows the number of FIR filter taps to be traded for sampling rate and could be useful in other radar or communication systems.","PeriodicalId":411890,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE Radar Conference. Radar into the Next Millennium (Cat. No.99CH36249)","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124142104","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":"Impact of platform motion on wide angle synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image quality","authors":"D. Kirk, R.P. Maloney, M. Davis","doi":"10.1109/NRC.1999.767234","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRC.1999.767234","url":null,"abstract":"In synthetic aperture radar (SAR), the deviations of the platform motion away from a straight line degrades the achievable SAR image quality. This problem is particularly acute for foliage penetration radars (FOPEN) which need to operate in the VHF-UHF band to penetrate the foliage. Achieving high resolution in the VHF-UHF band requires long coherent integration times, over which platforms typically experience significant deviations from a straight line. Techniques exist that can produce good focusing at the center of the output scene, but focusing degrades for points away from the focus point. The output scene size for which one can achieve acceptable image quality is a function of platform motion and system parameters (integration angle, range, wavelength, etc.). We quantify how the achievable output image scene size depends on platform motion and SAR parameters, using motion data from an existing SAR testbed. We also quantify the extent to which autofocus can be used to correct for the residual motion compensation errors, using results obtained on actual VHF-UHF SAR imagery.","PeriodicalId":411890,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE Radar Conference. Radar into the Next Millennium (Cat. No.99CH36249)","volume":"83 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127721478","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":"Circular array STAP","authors":"M. Zatman","doi":"10.1109/NRC.1999.767284","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRC.1999.767284","url":null,"abstract":"Traditionally, space-time adaptive processing (STAP) has been applied to uniform linear arrays (ULAs). However, when considering the overall radar system, electronically scanned circular arrays have advantages: a better combination of even and continual angular and temporal coverage, and mechanical simplicity because it does not need to rotate. The unanswered question about circular arrays is their suitability for STAP. This paper shows that for the airborne early warning (AEW) mission, circular arrays are indeed STAP compatible. However, from the STAP perspective there may be a small loss in performance when compared to a ULA. With some care in the choice and implementation of the STAP algorithm the majority of the degradation is at close ranges, where the target returns are relatively strong. At long ranges the performance is barely affected.","PeriodicalId":411890,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE Radar Conference. Radar into the Next Millennium (Cat. No.99CH36249)","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134136892","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":"Transform domain localized processing using measured steering vectors and non-homogeneity detection","authors":"R. Adve, Todd B. Hale, Michael C. Wicks","doi":"10.1109/NRC.1999.767347","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRC.1999.767347","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents two transform domain non-homogeneity detectors (NHDs) that account for the non-ideal array and the non-homogeneous interference environment. Each of these effects has been accounted for separately before (Adve and Wicks 1998; and Chang 1997). However, this paper is the first attempt to incorporate both effects into a single STAP algorithm. The formulation developed for the joint domain localized algorithm is tested on measured data from the MCARM database. The example illustrates the effects in detection performance by considering both the non-ideal system and non-homogeneous interference scenario, individually and in combination. The results show that if only the non-homogeneous data is accounted for, the NHD might actually worsen the situation. Both system and interference scenario imperfections must therefore be accounted for.","PeriodicalId":411890,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE Radar Conference. Radar into the Next Millennium (Cat. No.99CH36249)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114849909","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 two stage hybrid space-time adaptive processing algorithm","authors":"R. Adve, T. Hale, M. Wicks","doi":"10.1109/NRC.1999.767344","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRC.1999.767344","url":null,"abstract":"This research presents two new space-time adaptive processing (STAP) algorithms; a two-dimensional non-statistical method and a hybridisation of this approach with statistically based methods. The non-statistical algorithm developed here allows filtering of uncorrelated interference, such as discrete interferers, within the range cell of interest. However, the performance of these algorithms in homogeneous correlated interference scenarios is inherently inferior to traditional statistical STAP algorithms. The proposed hybrid algorithm alleviates this drawback by implementing a second stage of statistical adaptive processing. This paper illustrates the advantages of using a two stage adaptive process to combine the direct data domain and statistical algorithms. The work presented in this paper brings together two different aspects of STAP research: statistical and direct data domain processing. In doing so, this research fulfils an important need in the context of practical STAP processing.","PeriodicalId":411890,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE Radar Conference. Radar into the Next Millennium (Cat. No.99CH36249)","volume":"91 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115017302","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":"Secondary surveillance radar monopulse target azimuth error estimation due to obstacle shadowing","authors":"L. Vinagre, K. Woodbridge","doi":"10.1109/NRC.1999.767302","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRC.1999.767302","url":null,"abstract":"Recorded data from some secondary surveillance radar (SSR) stations has shown deviations positional accuracy when the SSR antenna shadowed by neighbouring man-made structures (such as communication masts, buildings and radomes). Modern SSR monopulse receivers estimate the azimuth of aircraft through the orientation of the incident planar wavefront. Obstacles in the propagation path diffract part of the electromagnetic wave energy and as a result, the electric field across the antenna array is subject to a disturbance. The resultant azimuth error in the shadowed sector depends on the width and height of the obstacle and on its position relative both to the radar and the aircraft. A method to estimate the azimuth error curve due to obstacle shadowing based on cylindrical diffraction theory is described. A comparison between measured data and the estimated error curves reveals that azimuth errors can be very precisely calculated. Accurate estimation of azimuth errors due to obstructions has increasing significance for operators of SSRs. Radar performance must continue to be safeguarded in the face of increasing pressure to allow development on or near radar sites. Methods of estimating the effects of such developments will play a key role in future safeguarding.","PeriodicalId":411890,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE Radar Conference. Radar into the Next Millennium (Cat. No.99CH36249)","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114509943","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}