Challenges in radar sea clutter modelling

S Watts, L Rosenberg - IET Radar, Sonar & Navigation, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The ability to detect small targets in sea clutter is still an ongoing challenge, even for modern
radar systems. Over the past decade, the development of new radar waveforms and signal …

Multistatic radar: System requirements and experimental validation

M Inggs, H Griffiths, F Fioranelli… - 2014 International …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multistatic radar provides many advantages over conventional monostatic radar, such as
enhanced information on target signatures and improvements in detection which are due to …

Statistical analysis of bistatic and monostatic sea clutter

R Palamà, MS Greco, P Stinco… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work, we analyze the sea clutter data collected simultaneously by the bistatic and
monostatic nodes of an S-band netted radar system under different out-of-plane geometries …

Compatibility assessment of multistatic/polarimetric clutter data with the SIRP model

A Aubry, V Carotenuto, A De Maio… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article deals with the statistical inference of simultaneously recorded co-and cross-
polarized bistatic coherent sea-clutter returns at-band. This study is conducted employing …

Report on the 2018 trials of the multistatic NeXtRAD dual band polarimetric radar

MR Inggs, S Lewis, R Palamà… - 2019 IEEE Radar …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
NeXtRAD is a polarimetric, L and X Band, multistatic (three nodes), pulse Doppler radar,
developed by UCT and UCL, as a follow on to the NetRAD sensor. This paper reports on the …

Doppler-only target tracking for a multistatic radar exploiting FM band illuminators of opportunity

FDV Maasdorp - 2015 - open.uct.ac.za
Commensal Radar (CR), defined as a subclass of Passive Radar (PR), is a receive only
radar that exploits non-cooperative illuminators of opportunity for target detection, location …

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 …

Analysis of sea spikes in NetRAD clutter

R Palamà, M Greco, P Stinco… - 2014 11th European …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work our attention is focused on the statistical and spectral analysis of sea clutter
spikes recorded by the netted radar system, NetRad, which works in both monostatic and …

A domain-specific language to facilitate software defined radio parallel executable patterns deployment on heterogeneous architectures

LJ Mohapi, S Winberg, M Inggs - 2014 IEEE 33rd International …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we present a domain-specific language, referred to as OptiSDR, that matches
high level digital signal processing (DSP) routines for software defined radio (SDR) to their …

NeXtLook a lightweight, real-time quick-look processor for NeXtRAD

D Jordan, M Inggs, D O'Hagan - 2017 - IET
Real-time pulse compression and Doppler processing algorithms are traditionally thought to
require costly, high-performance hardware platforms such as DSPs, GPUs or even FPGAs …