In this paper, we present the wirelessmeasurement of various physical quantities from the analysis of the radar cross section variability of passive electromagnetic sensors. The technique uses a millimeter frequency-modulated continuous-wave radar for both remote sensing and wireless identification of sensors. Long reading ranges (up to some decameters) are reached at the expense of poor measur...

A hitchhiker is a passive radar receiver that relies on sources of opportunity to perform radar tasks.1–4 In this paper, we consider a synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) system with static non-cooperative transmitters and mobile receivers traversing arbitrary trajectories and present an analytic image formation method. Due to its combined synthetic aperture and hitchhiking structure, we refer to th...

As active microwave instruments become more advanced and the application of radar images more proliŽ c there is an ever present need for a wider audience to appreciate the workings and subtleties of radar remote sensing systems. Many problems associated with the use and interpretation of such data are a consequence of users failing to properly conceptualise the radar system and the manner in wh...

This dissertation focuses on advanced signal processing techniques for mul-ticarrier modulation in two application scenarios: underwater acoustic (UWA) communication and passive radar. In UWA communication, multicarrier transmission promises a substantial increase in data rate, following the path of recent success of broadband wireless radio communications. However, UWA channels are much more c...

The separation of transmitter and receiver in bistatic and multistatic radar sensors offers the system designer new and additional degrees of freedom to tailor solutions to specific applications. The receivers may be passive and hence largely immune to jamming. Passive systems that also use ‘illuminators of opportunity’ do not have to provide a potentially expensive transmitter. Multiple transm...

NASA’s Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) satellite mission combines a passive L-band radiometer and an active Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) instrument in order to monitor the near-surface soil moisture and freeze-thaw states globally, with a revisit frequency of 23 days. SMAP provides three soil moisture products: a high-resolution from the radar, a low-resolution from the radiometer, and an...

Abstract: In recent decades, the proliferation of smart phones, tablets, and wireless networks has fostered a growing interest in indoor passive positioning. The Wi-Fi-based passive positioning systems can provide Location-Based Services (LBSs) to the third party such as market and security departments. Most of the existing systems are based on the Receive Signal Strength Indication (RSSI) info...

Part I of this two-part paper treats Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) radar, passive microwave, and lightning observations in hurricanes individually. This paper (Part II) examines relationships between these parameters (and implications of the relationships). Quantitative relationships between lightning occurrence and 85-GHz brightness temperature, 37-GHz brightness temperature, and ...

In this study, the modified Cramér-Rao lower bounds (MCRLBs) on the joint estimation of target position and velocity is investigated for a universal mobile telecommunication system (UMTS)-based passive multistatic radar system with antenna arrays. First, we analyze the log-likelihood redfunction of the received signal for a complex Gaussian extended target. Then, due to the non-deterministic tr...

This paper proposes a novel scheme for multi-static passive radar processing, based on soft-input soft-output processing and Bayesian sparse estimation. In this scheme, each receiver estimates the probability of target presence based on its received signal and the prior information received from a central processor. The resulting posterior target probabilities are transmitted to the central pro...