The primary science instrument of the CloudSat Mission is the Cloud Profiling Radar (CPR). The CPR is a W-band (94 GHz) nadir looking radar (e.g. Tanelli, 2008) with the purpose of measuring backscattered power from hydrometeors (clouds and precipitation). Although the CPR contains an internal calibration system, external calibration using geophysical sources with known normalized radar cross-s...

Wolfgang Keydel Microwaves and Radar Institute German Aerospace Research Centre (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen Contact Address: Mittelfeld 4 D-82229 Hechendorf Germany E-mail: [email protected] Abstract SAR Interferometry explores the height structure inside a Radar pixel. Two antennas separated with a so called baseline distance B in cross velocity direction take two independent images from the...

Inspired by recent advances in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communications, this proposal introduces the statistical MIMO radar concept. To our knowledge, this is the first time that the statistical MIMO is being proposed for radar. The fundamental difference between statistical MIMO and other radar array systems is that the latter seek to maximize the coherent processing gain, while s...

[1] Cross-beam wind is usually estimated using a full correlation analysis (FCA) method applied to signals from spaced antennas. In this paper we present a cross-correlation ratio (CCR) method for wind measurements. The CCR method is illustrated using theory, and data obtained with the National Center for Atmospheric Research’s multiple antenna profiling radar. The standard errors of estimated ...

We examined the use of radar to detect humans wearing detonation wires as part of a suicide vest in suicide bombings in an effort to stop the bombing. Dogaru et al. (Computer models of the human body signature for sensing through the wall radar applications. Tech. Rpt. ARL-TR-4290, Army Research Laboratory, 2007) used numerical electromagnetic simulations to show ways to use radar backscatter t...

Airborne ultra wideband (UWB) impulse-radiating antennas (IRAs) present an especially large radar cross section to X–band radar. To mitigate this problem, we have numerically and experimentally investigated the use of a frequency selective surface (FSS) as a broadband filter to reflect X–band radar while transmitting lower-frequency UWB signals without loss or dispersion. We present here result...

An international and interdisciplinary Radar Aeroecology Workshop was held at the National Weather Center on 5-6 March 2012 on the University of Oklahoma campus in Norman, OK, USA. The workshop brought together biologists, meteorologists, radar engineers and computer scientists from 22 institutions and four countries. A central motivation behind the Radar Aeroecology Workshop was to foster bett...

The applicability of the mono-static radar cross section (RCS) for the weather radar (WR) and the wind turbines (WT) is evaluated by theoretical and numerical results. It is concluded that the RCS scheme is not applicable for objects on the ground and is not a useful parameter for the definition of safeguarding distances of WT to the WR. Proposals for a deterministic case by case numerical trea...

This report reviews the published literature on the characteristics of mono-static radar seaclutter observed with high grazing angles (typically above about 10). To date, most of the analysis and modelling of sea-clutter has been undertaken at low grazing angles with the main application being for surface and airborne maritime radars. The report identifies some of the data sets that have been ...

Researchers have recently proposed a widely separated multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar using monopulse angle estimation techniques for target tracking. The widely separated antennas provide improved tracking performance by mitigating complex target radar cross-section fades and angle scintillation. An adaptive array is necessary in this paradigm because the direct path from any trans...