Securing your airspace: Detection of drones trespassing protected areas

A Famili, A Stavrou, H Wang, JM Park, R Gerdes - Sensors, 2024 - mdpi.com
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) deployment has risen rapidly in recent years. They are now
used in a wide range of applications, from critical safety-of-life scenarios like nuclear power …

Detection of micro-Doppler signals of drones using radar systems with different radar dwell times

J Gong, J Yan, D Li, D Kong - Drones, 2022 - mdpi.com
Not any radar dwell time of a drone radar is suitable for detecting micro-Doppler (or jet
engine modulation, JEM) produced by the rotating blades in radar signals of drones …

Advance and Refinement: The Evolution of UAV Detection and Classification Technologies

V Semenyuk, I Kurmashev, A Lupidi, D Alyoshin… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
This review provides a detailed analysis of the advancements in unmanned aerial vehicle
(UAV) detection and classification systems from 2020 to today. It covers various detection …

Multi-frequency radar micro-doppler based classification of micro-drone payload weight

D Dhulashia, N Peters, C Horne, P Beasley… - Frontiers in Signal …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The use of drones for recreational, commercial and military purposes has seen a rapid
increase in recent years. The ability of counter-drone detection systems to sense whether a …

Field trial of a coherent, widely distributed, dual-band photonics-based MIMO radar with ISAR imaging capabilities

S Maresca, G Serafino, C Noviello… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Soon after its introduction in the communications domain, the novel concept of multiple input–
multiple output (MIMO) has been making its way also into the radar world. A new generation …

Enhanced target localization with deployable multiplatform radar nodes based on non-convex constrained least squares optimization

A Aubry, P Braca, A De Maio… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A new algorithm for 3D localization in multiplatform radar networks, comprising one
transmitter and multiple receivers, is proposed. To take advantage of the monostatic sensor …

Comparison of radar signatures from a hybrid VTOL fixed-wing drone and quad-rotor drone

J Gong, D Li, J Yan, H Hu, D Kong - Drones, 2022 - mdpi.com
Current studies rarely mention radar detection of hybrid vertical take-off and landing (VTOL)
fixed-wing drones. We investigated radar signals of an industry-tier VTOL fixed-wing drone …

Urban bird-drone classification with synthetic micro-Doppler spectrograms

D White, M Jahangir, CJ Baker… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, a method for creating highly realistic synthetic drone micro-Doppler
spectrograms is presented and its effectiveness of training a bird-drone classifier for real …

Bird and Micro-Drone Doppler Spectral Width and Classification

D White, M Jahangir, JP Wayman… - 2023 24th …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper reports on the class separability of spectrograms featuring bird and micro-drone
targets produced by an L-Band staring radar. Multi-rotor drones with small propellor blades …

Time-frequency analysis using V-band radar for drone detection and classification

I Lam, S Pant, M Manning, M Kubanski… - 2023 IEEE …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Detection and classification of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), namely drones, is an active
area of research. Radars are all-weather instrument that operate in various frequency bands …