The electromagnetic power that comes from the Sun has been proved to be an effective reference for checking the quality of dual-polarization weather radar receiver. Operational monitoring methods have been developed and implemented for determining the electromagnetic antenna pointing, assessing the receiver stability, and the differential reflectivity offset. So far, the focus has been on relat...

A neural network recognition and tracking system is proposed for classification of radar pulses in autonomous Electronic Support Measure systems. Radar type information is combined with position-specific information from active emitters in a scene. Such a What-and-Where fusion strategy is motivated by a similar subdivision of labor in the brain.

Object/target tracking refers to the problem of using sensor measurements to determine the location, path and characteristics of objects of interest. A sensor can be any measuring device, such as radar, sonar, ladar, camera, infrared sensor, microphone, ultrasound or any other sensor that can be used to collect information about objects in the environment. The typical objectives of object track...

A Doppler radar is a specialized radar that makes use of the Doppler effect to estimate targets velocity. It does this by beaming a microwave signal towards a desired target and listening for its reflection, then analyzing how the frequency of the returned signal has been altered by the object’s motion. This variation gives direct and highly accurate measurements of the radial component of a ta...

18 High-Frequency (HF) radars are operated in the 3-30 MHz frequency band and are known to cover ranges up to several hundred kilometers. Low power HF radar systems have been developed especially for oceanographic applications. They use electromagnetic surface wave propagation along the salty ocean. The WERA HF radar system transmits an average power of 30 watts but it achieves detection ranges...

CELLTRACK algorithm, that will be described in this contribution is member of category of radar cell-tracking nowcasting algorithms. Meteorological radar measures radar reflectivity, therefore the term reflectivity core is more appropriate instead of the term convective cell. Reflectivity core identification is based on single minimum thresholding of maximum reflectivity data. Wind field from a...

Detection and estimation of multiple unresolved targets with a monopulse radar is a challenging problem. For ideal single bin processing, it was shown in the literature that at most two unresolved targets can be extracted from the complex matched filter output signal. In this thesis, a new algorithm is developed to jointly detect and track more than two targets from a single detection. This met...

In this paper, an analysis of radar range and probability of detection by the use of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar with cooperative high altitude aeronautical platforms (HAAP) relay (which could operate at stratospheric altitudes) is presented. In this study, a method of cooperative diversity known as ampliy-and-forward (AF) is considered and a target fluctuation model (Swerling I...