Download or read book Optimisation of Surveillance Performance in Phased Array Radars written by Alexopoulos Aris and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presented is an analytical approach to the study of the system-performance aspects of phased array radars using integro-differential tensor forms. Using tensor transformations between different coordinate systems we examine some of the most important system surveillance parameters for static and rotating phased array radars facilitated by an analysis on space-like and time-like manifolds. The mathematical approach discussed allows the derivation of the optimum configurations between the two types of arrays and a comparison between the two systems is made.

Download or read book Optimised Radar Processors written by Alfonso Farina and published by IET. This book was released on 1987 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation The first volume in a new series. Contributed papers give a theory of radar signal processing at a level accessible and useful to practicing radar engineers concerned with design and analysis. No index. Annotation(c) 2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Download or read book Evaluation of the Multifunction Phased Array Radar Planning Process written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2008-09-14 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Multifunction Phased Array Radar (MPAR) is one potentially cost-effective solution to meet the surveillance needs and of several agencies currently using decades-old radar networks. These agencies including the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration s (NOAA) National Weather Service (NWS), the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the Department of Defense (DOD) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have many and varied requirements and possible applications of modern radar technology. This book analyzes what is lacking in the current system, the relevant capabilities of phased array technology, technical challenges, cost issues, and compares possible alternatives. Both specific and overarching recommendations are outlined.

Download or read book Applications in Low power Phased Array Weather Radars written by Robert A. Palumbo (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Low-cost X-band radars are an emerging technology that offer significant advantages over traditional systems for weather remote sensing applications. X-band radars provide enhanced angular resolution at a fraction of the aperture size compared to larger, lower frequency systems. Because of their low cost and small form factor, these radars can now be integrated into more research and commercial applications. This work presents research and development activities using a low-cost, X-band (9410 MHz) Phase-Tilt Radar. The phase-tilt design is a novel phased array architecture that allows for rapid electronic scanning in azimuth and mechanical tilting in elevation, as a compromise between cost and performance. This work focuses on field studies and experiments in three meteorological applications. The first stage of research focuses on the real-world application of phased array radars in forest fire monitoring and observation. From April to May 2013, a phase-tilt radar was deployed to South Australia and underwent a field campaign to make polarimetric observations of prescribed burns within and around the Adelaide Hills region. Measurements show the real-time evolution of the smoke plume dynamics at a spatial and temporal resolution that has never before been observed with an X-band radar. This dissertation will perform data analysis on results from this field campaign. Results are compared against existing work, theories, and approaches. In the second stage of research, field experiments are performed to assess the data quality of X-band phased array radars. Specifically, this research focuses on the measurement of and techniques to improve the variance of weather product estimators for dual-polarized systems. Variability in the radar products is a complicated relationship between the radar system specifications, scanning strategy, and the physics governing precipitation. Here, the variance of the radar product estimators is measured using standard radar scanning strategies employed in traditional mechanical antenna systems. Results are compared against adaptive scan strategies such as beam multiplexing and frequency diversity. This work investigates the improvement that complex scanning strategies offer in dual-polarized, X-band phased array radar systems. In the third stage of research, simulations and field experiments are conducted to investigate the performance benefits of adaptive scanning to optimize the data quality of radar returns. This research focuses on the development and implementation of a waveform agile and adaptive scanning strategy to improve the quality of weather product estimators. Active phased array radars allow radar systems to quickly vary both scan pointing angles and waveform parameters in response to real-time observations of the atmosphere. As an evolution of the previous research effort, this work develops techniques to adaptively change the scan pointing angles, transmit and matched filter waveform parameters to achieve a desired level of data quality. Strategies and techniques are developed to minimize the error between observed and desired data quality measures. Simulation and field experiments are performed to assess the quality of the developed strategies.

Download or read book Parameter Optimisation in Phased Array Radar written by Eugene Raymond Billam and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Signal Design for Modern Radar Systems written by Mohammad Alaee-Kerahroodi and published by Artech House. This book was released on 2022-11-30 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives you a comprehensive overview of key optimization tools that can be used to design radar waveforms and adaptive signal processing strategies under practical constraints -- strategies such as power method-like iterations, coordinate descent, and majorization-minimization – that help you to meet the more and more stressing sensing system requirements. The book walks you through how radar waveform synthesis is obtained as the solution to a constrained optimization problem such as finite energy, unimodularity (or being constant-modulus), and finite or discrete-phase (potentially binary) alphabet, which are dictated by the practical limitations of the real systems. Several approaches in each of these broad frameworks are detailed and various applications of these optimization techniques are described. Focusing on a holistic approach rather than a problem-specific approach, the book shows you what you need to effectively formulate waveform design and understand the flexibility of the framework for adapting to your own specific needs. You’ll have full access to the tools and knowledge you need to design waveform with optimized correlation/cross-correlation properties for SISO/SIMO and MIMO radars, taking into account spectral constraints for cognitive rads, as well as coexistence with communications and mitigate possible Doppler and quantization errors, and more. The book also includes representative software codes that further help you generate the described solutions. With its unique style of covering mathematical results along with their applications from diverse areas, this is a much-needed, detailed handbook for industry researchers, scientists and designers including medical, marine, defense, and automotive companies. It is also an excellent resource for advanced courses on radar signal processing.

Download or read book Advances in Radar Techniques written by John Clarke and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book International Conference Radar 82 written by Institution of Electrical Engineers. Electronics Division and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Antenna Design and Signal Processing for Mechanical FMCW Coastal Surveillance Radar Systems written by Jasni E. Basuki and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The demand for highly sophisticated radar systems to be implemented along the coastal waters of the Strait of Malacca for the surveillance and tracking of vessels that travels through this narrow Strait has risen rapidly over the last few decades. Along with the technological advancements in radar systems, the increased demand is in response to the success that radars have introduced in significantly reducing some of the biggest problems contributed from security and weather condition perspectives. The existing radars implemented by Indonesian authorities to fulfil the surveillance requirements of the Strait mainly comprises of electronic scanning systems. Nonetheless, several allocated radar sites along the Strait inevitably lacks the basic infrastructure and accessibility required to install more complex systems (i.e. electronic scanning radars) that are prone to higher maintenance. This have favoured authorities to opt for the use of mechanical scanning radars, which, unlike phased array systems, are simpler, less complex, and significantly more affordable systems. The resolution performance alongside the accuracy of the positional information of a detected target provided by the radar is highly dependent on the angular resolution of the antenna. For mechanically scanning radars, a highly directional beam is commonly produced by employing conventional parabolic reflector antennas. Reflector antennas are a popular choice for surveillance and tracking applications as it is known for producing beams with very high gain and narrow beamwidths in both planes. However, this is usually achieved by employing an undesirably large reflector, which tends to significantly increase the cost of the radar system, and most importantly its size and weight, which is critical especially for applications that highly values compact and mobile systems. To overcome this issue faced in many similar situations, several angle measurement techniques have been introduced to improve the detection performance of radars without increasing the physical size of the antenna, with the most notable and highly successful one being monopulse technique. This research project proposes a model of a reflector antenna design for a mechanical scanning radar that is suitable to provide coastal surveillance and monitoring of vessels and low flying objects. The objective of the antenna design is to significantly improve the resolution and accuracy for target detection without utilizing a larger dish, but instead through the implementation of amplitude monopulse and a novel post-detection processing technique that allows for the design of a more compact and cost-effective antenna system. The proposed reflector antenna system that achieves these objectives comprises of a dual-horn feed and a vertically truncated reflector of an optimal aperture shape and dimension to create a pair of simultaneous overlapping fan-shaped beams that is narrow in azimuth and several times wider in elevation. The design of the monopulse feed is modelled and simulated on a CEM tool (CST) to evaluate the monopulse patterns produced in the horizontal plane of the radar, which are optimized towards the requirements of the application. In addition, this thesis introduces a novel post-detection signal processing technique that uses priori information of the antenna response pattern to offer a substantial enhancement on the resolution and clutter resilience of any new or existing radar antenna system at a very low cost, which is especially likely to make a significant contribution to the safety at sea. In addition to limiting the size of the antenna as much as possible while fulfilling the requirements of the application in hand, employing the proposed antenna system along the coastal shores of the Strait of Malacca would largely prioritize on keeping the effective weight and cost of the antenna to a minimum. This is achieved by manufacturing the reflector through 3D printing technology and coating its surface with a copper compound spray to achieve the properties of a metal. A prototype of the reflector antenna is manufactured accordingly using the proposed method of fabrication in order to provide an assessment of the practical antenna performance. The radiation properties of the antenna pattern are measured in an outdoor range test facility, and the measurement results allows for an accurate validation of the electromagnetic (EM) simulations of the corresponding antenna design obtained on CST. Finally, in order to assess the enhancing effect of the proposed signal processing technique on the resolution performance of an existing antenna, MATLAB based codes have been developed to demonstrate the technique on several simulated far-field patterns of antennas with common line source distributions before it is applied on the sum pattern output of the monopulse antenna designed in this project.

Download or read book Ultrawideband Radar written by James D. Taylor and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-12-19 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing a practical review of the latest technology in the field, Ultrawideband Radar Applications and Design presents cutting-edge advances in theory, design, and practical applications of ultrawideband (UWB) radar. This book features contributions from an international team of experts to help readers learn about a wide range of UWB topics, including: History of the technology American and European governmental regulations and key definitions Nonsinusoidal wave propagation theory Random signal radar Object detection by ground permittivity measurements Large-target backscattering effects Medical applications Large current radiator antenna design Materials-penetrating theory Radar signal processing Weak-signal detection methods Holographic and real time radar imaging This book’s contributors use practical information to illustrate the latest theoretical developments and demonstrate UWB radar principles through case studies. Radar system engineers will find ideas for precision electronic sensing systems for use in medical, security, industrial, construction, and geophysical applications, as well as those used in archeological, forensic and transportation operations.

Download or read book An Analysis of Phased Array Radar Fences for Space Surveillance written by Christine A. Catrib (CAPT, USAF.) and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Surveillance Radar Performance Prediction written by Paul Rohan and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Proceedings of 2022 International Conference on Autonomous Unmanned Systems ICAUS 2022 written by Wenxing Fu and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-03-10 with total page 3985 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book includes original, peer-reviewed research papers from the ICAUS 2022, which offers a unique and interesting platform for scientists, engineers and practitioners throughout the world to present and share their most recent research and innovative ideas. The aim of the ICAUS 2022 is to stimulate researchers active in the areas pertinent to intelligent unmanned systems. The topics covered include but are not limited to Unmanned Aerial/Ground/Surface/Underwater Systems, Robotic, Autonomous Control/Navigation and Positioning/ Architecture, Energy and Task Planning and Effectiveness Evaluation Technologies, Artificial Intelligence Algorithm/Bionic Technology and Its Application in Unmanned Systems. The papers showcased here share the latest findings on Unmanned Systems, Robotics, Automation, Intelligent Systems, Control Systems, Integrated Networks, Modeling and Simulation. It makes the book a valuable asset for researchers, engineers, and university students alike.

Download or read book Phased Array Radar Design written by Thomas W. Jeffrey and published by IET. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a concise yet complete treatment of the relationship between mission-level requirements and specific hardware and software requirements and capabilities. Although focusing on surface-based radars, the material is general enough to serve as a useful addition to books currently available for this purpose.

Download or read book Technical Abstract Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lists citations with abstracts for aerospace related reports obtained from world wide sources and announces documents that have recently been entered into the NASA Scientific and Technical Information Database.

Download or read book Active Phased Array Radar Analysis written by Victor A. Micheli and published by . This book was released on 1996-09-01 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A phased array antenna can electronically steer the direction of the antenna beam almost instantaneously. In an Active Phased Array Radar (APAR), this capability is used to allow the system to multiplex its time between many different functions; the primary functions are search and target tracking. Potentially, the APAR can be designed based on the task it is performing, such that any savings in radar time in meeting the requirement of one task allow that time to be devoted beneficially to other tasks. The primary goal of this research is to investigate the performance assessment and improve the techniques for control of an Active Phased Array Radar performing the tracking function. In order to reliably and efficiently track targets, a MS. Excel 5.0 Spread Sheet program is implemented so that tracking range must be rapidly changed. With this program we can explore the many degrees of freedom that future APAR's will bring, such as adaptable update rate, antenna beamwidth, transmitted power, frequency, etc.