Passive Radars - New Frontiers and Challenges

POL
Warsaw University of Technology

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Abstract

Fundamentals of active and passive radars, multi-static concept of operation, illumination sources (FM, DAB, DVB-T, DVB-S, WiFi, GSM, LTE, GPS and many more), clutter modelling and clutter cancellation.EM propagation, signal modelling, matched and unmatched reception, signal processing,range and Doppler walk compensation, Detection limitations, multistatic tracking, PassiveSAR and IASR processing, trafic monitoring, pedestrian detection, sparse signalreconstruction,Object motion modeling, space object detection using DAB and DVB-T signals, Roadmaps.

Description

Intended Audience

Students, engineers, air traffic control staff, traffic monitoring staff, border guard, etc.

Duration: 1-2 days: (6 hours per day)

Outline and time frame of the Short Course

  • Introduction 
  • Physical basis 
  • Propagation 
  • Detection limitations 
  • Signal processing, detection and tracking 
  • Passive imaging 
  • Hardware considerations 
  • Applications 
  • Road map presentation  

Instructor Short Course History

NATO lecture series on Passive radar technology (Director) Passive radar tutorials on different radar conferences.