A radar system is generally implemented and addressed to detect the target of concern. So, in a radar system, analysis and application of Ultra Wide Band (UWB) signals solves most of the problems of radar target detection. Since multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar possess significant potentials for fading mitigation, resolution enhancement and interference and jamming suppression, by op...

21 NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission will carry the first combined spaceborne L-22 band radiometer and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) system with the objective of mapping near-23 surface soil moisture and freeze/thaw state globally every 2-3 days. SMAP will provide three soil 24 moisture products; (i) high-resolution from radar (~3km), (ii) low-resolution from radiometer 25 (~3...

In this paper, we describe how an active radar/sonar imaging problem may be formulated as a virtual passive sensor array processing problem. We consider an active sensing problem where it is desired to form a range-Doppler image at a slowtime rate, even though the radar/sonar can transmit pulses at a fast time rate. By transmitting pulses at the fast time rate we can estimate the second-order s...

We have recently extended the passive radar technique to permit interferometric observation of ionospheric irregularities. We discuss the implementation of a passive radar interferometer at VHF frequencies and show observations of field-aligned irregularities in the high latitude E-region ionosphere. The interferometer achieves very fine azimuthal resolution (as fine as 0.1◦, or 2 km at a range...

Passive radar systems, which utilize broadcast and navigation signals as sources of opportunity, have attracted significant interests in recent years due to their low cost, covertness, and the availability of different illuminator sources. In this paper, we propose a novel method for synthetic aperture imaging in multi-static passive radar systems based on a group sparse Bayesian learning techn...

This paper investigates the possibility to improve target detection capability in a DVB-T- based passive radar sensor by jointly exploiting multiple digital television channels broadcast by the same transmitter of opportunity. Based on the remarkable results obtained by such a multi-frequency approach using other signals of opportunity (i.e., FM radio broadcast transmissions), we propose approp...

Passive Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)-based Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), known as GNSS-SAR, is a new passive radar imaging system. However, compared with conventional SAR, range resolution of GNSS-SAR is significantly lower. To improve range resolution of GNSS-SAR is an interested topic for investigation. In this paper, a novel range compression algorithm for enhancing range reso...

Radar, and in particular imaging radar, have many and varied applications to counterterrorism. Radar is a day/night all-weather sensor, and imaging radars carried by aircraft or satellites are routinely able to achieve high-resolution images of target scenes, and to detect and classify stationary and moving targets at operational ranges. Short-range radar techniques may be used to identify smal...

Based on the existing mathematical formalisms of radar polarimetry, it is necessary to perform accurate and diversified polarimetric measurements in the real world to thoroughly investigate signature definition, identification, and classification of radar targets. For this study the Delft Atmospheric Research Radar (DARR) is used. This ground-based polarimetric FM-CW radar operates in the S-ban...