Receiver Site Optimisation for Passive Coherent Location (PCL) Radar System
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The Radar Remote Sensing Group in University of Cape Town has developed accurate modelling method that uses 3D maps of the Western Cape to predict the signal path loss between a transmitter, aircraft and a receiver in the Passive Coherent Location (PCL) system. The core objective of this thesis is to investigate the use of this modelling method to optimise the location of receivers in order to achieve maximum coverage of aircraft moving around Cape Town International Airport. This project report investigates to approach the theory of Electro-magnetic (EM) propagation and EM simulations by using the available modelling tools. It has shown the coverage area only depends on the length of the baseline for desired SNR in a particular passive radar system. This report has also obtained theoretical formulation of the coverage area and a method to calculate the coverage area by using Matlab from the EM simulations for an one transmitter and one receiver passive radar.This will be followed by investigating on the problem with several receivers and one transmitter passive radar system.
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