A photonics-assisted multi-band MIMO radar network for the port of the future

G Serafino, S Maresca, L Di Mauro… - IEEE Journal of …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Internet-of-Things paradigm is pushing the current fully-automated industry to Industry
4.0, laying on a high degree of end-to-end digitization of all physical assets and their …

Multistatic Radar Measurements of UAVs at X-band and L-band

P Beasley, M Ritchie, H Griffiths… - 2020 IEEE Radar …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents analysis of data captured with the NeXtRAD multistatic radar system
during a fortnight of experimental trials in December 2019. The trials saw, for the first time …

Measurements and discrimination of drones and birds with a multi‐frequency multistatic radar system

R Palamà, F Fioranelli, M Ritchie… - IET Radar, Sonar & …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This article presents the results of a series of measurements of multistatic radar signatures of
small UAVs at L‐and X‐bands. The system employed was the multistatic multiband radar …

Global Navigation Satellite Systems disciplined oscillator synchronisation of multistatic radar

PJ Beasley, N Peters, C Horne… - IET Radar, Sonar & …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
A fundamental challenge in the practical implementation of multistatic radar systems (MSRS)
is the requirement for precise time and frequency synchronisation between the spatially …

Synchronization of coherent netted radar using white rabbit compared with one-way multichannel GPSDOs

S Lewis, M Inggs - IEEE transactions on aerospace and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Accurate and stable time and frequency transfer (TFT) is typically required in distributed
sensing. While this has historically been a limiting factor in the design of netted radars, the …

Measurements of multistatic X&L band radar signatures of UAVs

R Palamà, F Fioranelli, M Ritchie… - 2019 International …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper illustrates the results of a series of measurements of multistatic radar signatures
of small UAVs at L and X band. The system employed was the multistatic multiband radar …

Fully digital, urban networked staring radar: Simulation and experimentation

D Griffiths, M Jahangir, J Kannanthara… - IET Radar, Sonar & …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The application and uses of drones in all areas are continuously rising, especially in civilian
use cases. This increasing threat requires reliable drone surveillance in urban …

A summary of the results achieved by the GPS disciplined references of the NetRAD and NeXtRAD multistatic radars

JS Sandenbergh, MR Inggs - 2019 IEEE Radar Conference …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The NetRAD multistatic radar was developed at UCL and was limited to 100 m baselines by
its cable synchronisation system. UCT contributed three low-cost quartz-based GPS …

Synchronising coherent networked radar using low-cost GPS-disciplined oscillators

JS Sandenbergh - 2019 - open.uct.ac.za
This text evaluates the feasibility of synchronising coherent, pulsed-Doppler, networked,
radars with carrier frequencies of a few gigahertz and moderate bandwidths of tens of …

Radar UAV and bird signature comparisons with micro-Doppler

M Ritchie, N Peters, C Horne - 2021 - discovery.ucl.ac.uk
This chapter reviews the similarities and differences between micro Unmanned Aerial
Vehicles (UAVs), also referred to as drones, and bird targets from the signals they present to …