Simulations of beam propagation in three-dimensional random media were used to study the effects of atmospheric refractive turbulence on coherent lidar performance. By use of the two-beam model, the lidar return is expressed in terms of the overlap integral of the transmitter and the virtual (backpropagated) local oscillator beams at the target, reducing the problem to one of computing irradian...

This thesis concerns the design of transmitter-receiver chains for wideband radar systems. The transmitter side employs one, or several, highly flexible signal generators, which are able to generate signals with a large bandwidth. At the receiver side, when we are are able to select receiver filters, we have the freedom to optimize also the receiver filters. Herein, the transmit waveforms and r...

Radar refractivity retrievals can capture near-surface humidity changes, but noisy phase changes of the ground clutter returns limit the accuracy for both klystronand magnetron-based systems. Observations with a C-band (5.6 cm)magnetronweather radar indicate that the correction for phase changes introduced by local oscillator frequency changes leads to refractivity errors no larger than 0.25 N ...

The integrated sensing and wireless power transfer (ISWPT) technology, in which the radar functionalities are implemented using same hardware platform, has been recently proposed. In this paper, we consider a near-field ISWPT system where one hybrid transmitter deploys extremely large-scale antenna arrays, multiple energy receivers located region of transmitter. Under such new scenario, study p...

In this paper, we describe the design of a hybrid 24 GHz RADAR array for termite detection and imaging. The array uses MIMO techniques to provide transmit beam steering and null steering in conjunction with the Matrix Enhanced Matrix Pencil (MEMP), which provides direction of arrival processing. We describe the selection of our MIMO orthogonal codes and test their suitability. Simulated results...

We describe in detail the theoretical and practical implementation aspects of a simulation for marine radars which can, in particular, be used in multistatic configurations. Since the simulator is intended to deliver pseudo-raw signals, it can be used later as a tool to benchmark and improve post-processing algorithms such as bistatic synthetic aperture radar focusing algorithms and ship wake d...

Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)-based bistatic Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) recently plays a more and more significant role in remote sensing applications for its low-cost and real-time global coverage capability. In this paper, a general imaging formation algorithm was proposed for accurately and efficiently focusing GNSS-based bistatic SAR data, which avoids the interpolation proc...

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...

Radar waveform design is of great importance for radar system performances and has drawn considerable attention recently. Constant modulus is an important waveform design consideration, both from the point of view of hardware realization and to allow for full utilization of the transmitter's power. In this paper, we consider the problem of constant-modulus waveform design for extended target de...

In the early days of radar, range resolution was made by transmitting a short burst of electromagnetic energy and receiving the reflected signals. This evolved into modulating a sinusoidal carrier into transmitting pulses at a given repetition interval. To get higher resolution in the radars the transmitted pulses got shorter and thereby the transmitted spectrum larger. As will be shown later t...