North-Western Italy is a geographical region characterized by complex orography with many river catchments. Severe meteorological conditions frequently leads to flood situations due to very high rainfall amounts. In addition to a quite dense net of rain gauges, in the last three years two Doppler radar systems have been installed to provide a continuous monitoring of the region. The Bric della ...

Our work at the National Center for Atmospheric Research includes processing data from research meteorological radars. We evaluate and tune signalprocessing algorithms that process as much as 1500 megabytes of data per hour in real-time. In the past year, we have designed and implemented the Python Environment for Radar Processing (PERP) using Numeric Python to aid in our research. Because Pyth...

Traditional antipersonnel (AP) land mines are an effective military tool, but they are unable to distinguish friend from foe, or civilian from military personnel. The concept described here uses an advanced moving target indicator (MTI) radar to scan the minefield in order to detect movement towards or within the minefield, coupled with visual identification by a human operator and a communicat...

This paper derives its link of direction of arrival (DOA) and direction of departure (DOD) estimation problem for multiinput multi-output (MIMO) radar to the trilinear model. With the exploitation of this link, we present a trilinear decompositionbased blind algorithm for angle estimation in MIMO radar. After the algorithmic presentation and discussions for identifiability results, trilinear de...

This work develops a system to visualize the information for radar systems interfaces. It is a flexible, portable software system that allows to be used for radars that have different technologies and that is able to be adapted to the specific needs of each application domain in an efficient way. Replacing the visualization and processing units on existing radar platforms by this new system, a ...

In this research work cobalt-ferrite (CoFe2O4) nanoparticles were synthesized by a simple, general sol-gel auto-combustion method. For this study, electromagnetic (EM) wave absorbing coatings with different weight fractions of nano-carbon and CoFe2O4 (which, arises from both dielectric and magnetic contributions) and polymeric epoxy resin were prepared and their characteristics were fully inves...

this research focuses on proposing an optimal trajectory planning and control method of two link rigid-flexible manipulators (tlrfm) for dynamic object manipulation (dom) missions. for the first time, achievement of dom task using a rotating one flexible link robot was taken into account in [20]. the authors do not aim to contribute on either trajectory tracking or vibration control of the end-...

In this paper, finding Dynamic Load Carrying Capacity (DLCC) of flexible link manipulators in point to-point motion was formulated as an optimal control problem. The finite element method was employed for modelling and deriving the dynamic equations of the system. The study employed indirect solution of optimal control for system motion planning. Due to offline nature of the method, many diffic...

This work develops a system to visualize the information for radar systems interfaces. It is a flexible, portable software system that allows to be used for radars that have different technologies and that is able to be adapted to the specific needs of each aplication domain in an eficient way. Replacing the visualization and processing units on existing radar platforms by this new system, a pr...