IEEE Catalog Number: ISBN:

CFP08RAD-PRT 978-1-4244-1538-0

2008 IEEE Radar Conference

Rome, Italy 26-30 May 2008

Pages 1-561

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Radar Signature Analysis Using Information Theory .....................................................................................1

John A. Malas, Krishna M. Pasala

Phased Array Technology in Australia .............................................................................................................7Ian T. Croser

Inter-pulse Coding for Ideal Range Response ................................................................................................12Nadav Levanon

M3R AESA Technology for Extended Air Defence .......................................................................................18Odile Adrian

Advanced Mitigating Techniques to Remove the Effects of Wind Turbines and Wind Farms on Primary Surveillance Radars..........................................................................................................24

Leonov Sergey, Oliver Hubbard, Zhen Ding, Hamid Ghadaki, Jian Wang, Tony Ponsford

Analytical Performance Evaluation of an Enhanced Frequency Domain Radar Detector ........................30Fathy M. Ahmed, Khairy A. Elbarbary, Abdel Rahman H. Elbardawiny

Continuous-Discrete Filtering Using the Dirac-Feynman Algorithm...........................................................35Bhashyam Balaji, Mike McDonald

Design of Mismatched Filters for Long Binary Codes ...................................................................................41Rao M. Nuthalapati

Development of a Polarimetric Cfar Detector Using Markov Chains ..........................................................47Chuhong Feia, Vassilis Anastassopoulosb, Ting Liua, George A. Lampropoulos, Kevin Murnaghanc, Ramin Sabryd

Task Scheduling Algorithm for an Air and Missile Defense Radar..............................................................53Hasan S. Mir, John D. Wilkinson

Advanced Microwave Material Developments for Electronically Steerable Phased Array Radars ................................................................................................................................................................59

Russell R. Hornung, John C. Frankosky, Alain Desire

Nonlinear Filters for Long Range Radars.......................................................................................................65Fred Daum, Jim Huang

Estimation of the Lateral Target Length by Generalised Power Estimation: Clutter-free Case ....................................................................................................................................................................71

R. Klemm

High Resolution Millimetre Wave Measurement Radars for Ground Based SAR and ISAR Imaging ..............................................................................................................................................................77

Helmut Essen, Manfred Hägelen, Winfried Johannes, Rainer Sommer, Alfred Wahlen, Michael Schlechtweg, Axel Tessmann

A Millimetrewave Landing Aid Approach for Helicopters under Brown-Out Conditions ........................82Manfred Hagelen, Gunnar Briese, Helmut Essen, Thomas Bertuch, Peter Knott, Axel Tessmann

Real-Time Autonomous Disturbance Detection and Monitoring System with L-Band UAVSAR ............................................................................................................................................................86

Ron Muellerschoen, Yunling Lou, Steve Chien, Sassan Saatchi

Detection and Analysis of Human Motion by Radar .....................................................................................91Victor C. Chen

Impact of STAP Processing on Antenna Design.............................................................................................95P. Lacomme

A New Wall Compensation Algorithm for Through-the-wall Radar Imaging ..........................................100Lingjiang Kong, Guolong Cui, Jianyu Yang, Xiaochun Wang

On the Potentials of Passive, Multistatic, Low Frequency Radars to Counter Stealth and Detect Low Flying Targets .............................................................................................................................105

H. Kuschel, J. Heckenbach, St. Müller, R. Appel

Avian Detection and Identification with High-resolution Radar ................................................................111Qun Zhang, Yue-sheng Zeng, Yuan-qiao He, Ying Luo

Ground-based Multi-channel Synthetic-aperture Radar for Mapping the Ice-bed Interface..................117Christopher Allen, John Paden, David Dunson, Prasad Gogineni

Tunable Patch Antenna Using a Liquid Crystal Substrate .........................................................................123Ranjan Bose, Aloka Sinha

Wavelet-Based SAR Image Despeckling Using Cauchy pdf Modeling.......................................................129Guozhong Chen, Xingzhao Liu

Frequency-invariant and Low Cross-polarization Pattern Synthesis for Conformal Array Antenna ............................................................................................................................................................134

Wang Bu-hong, Guo Ying

Descriptive Experiment Design Unified with Worst-case Performance Optimization-adapted Regularization for High-resolution Radar/SAR Imaging .............................................................140

Yuriy V. Shkvarko

Detection and Estimation with Redundant Range Differences ...................................................................146Sayit Korkmaz

A New Polarization Reconfigurable Microstrip Antenna for Diversity Array..........................................150Jingjing Huang, Kin-Fai Tong, Chris Baker

Reducing Pulse Compression Sidelobes by Inversion-Amenable Code Selection .....................................154G.D. Cain, A. Yardim, A.M. Bowler, M.A. Mughal

Three dimensional Barker’s ISAR signal and Image Reconstruction........................................................160Andon D. Lazarov, Marco Martorella, Chavdar N. Minchev

Adaptive Subspace Detection of Range Distributed Targets in Compound-gaussian Clutter .................166Yanfei Zhang , Jian Guan

Arctic Sea Ice Mapping with Satellite Radars ..............................................................................................172Son V. Nghiem, Pablo Clemete-Colón

Efficient Wideband Processing Without Subbanding..................................................................................175S. Unnikrishna Pillai, Ke Yong Li , Joseph R. Guerci

Modeling Surface Layer Turbulence Effects at Microwave Frequencies ..................................................180Amalia Barrios

Modulus Constraints in Adaptive Radar Waveform Design.......................................................................186Lee K. Patton, Brian D. Rigling

Hypertemporal SAR Sequences for Monitoring Land Cover Dynamics ...................................................192Paolo Gamba, Fabio Dell’Acqua, Giovanna Trianni

Pulse Compression Eclipsing Repair .............................................................................................................197Shannon D. Blunt, Karl Gerlach, Eric L. Mokole

Wavelet-Based Despeckling for SAR Image Combing HMT Model with GMRF Model .........................202Guozhong Chen, Xingzhao Liu

Tracking of Ground Targets with Bistatic Airborne Radar .......................................................................207Martina Daun,Wolfgang Koch, Richard Klemm

Multistatic Target Tracking for Non-Cooperative Illumination by DAB/DVB-T.....................................213Martina Daun, Wolfgang Koch

Adaptive Radar: Beyond the RMB Rule.......................................................................................................219William L. Melvin, Gregory A. Showman, Ryan K. Hersey

Observations and Mitigation of RFI in Alos Palsar SAR Data: Implications for the Desdyni Mission...............................................................................................................................................227

Paul A. Rosen, Scott Hensley, Charles Le

Affordable High-performance Radar Networks for Homeland Security Applications ............................233Tim J. Nohara, Peter Weber, Graeme Jones, Andrew Ukrainec, Al Premji

Model-Oriented Hydrometeor Classification and Water Content Estimate using Dual-Polarized Weather Radars .............................................................................................................................239

F. S. Marzano, D. Scaranari, M. Montopoli, G. Vulpiani

Inversion Techniques to Retrieve High-resolution Precipitation Fields from Satellite X-band Synthetic Aperture Radar.....................................................................................................................243

F. S. Marzano, J. A. Weinman, A. Mugnai, N. Pierdicca

Wake Vortex Profiling by Doppler X-Band Radar : Orly Trials at Initial Take-off & ILS Interception Critical Areas.............................................................................................................................247

F. Barbaresco, J.P. Wasselin, A. Jeantet, Uwe Meier

Radar Target Classification Based on Support Vector Machines and High Resolution Range Profiles..................................................................................................................................................253

S. Kent N. G. Kasapoglu, M. Kartal

Investigations on Signatures of Projectiles for Sniper Detection Applications..........................................259Alexander Hommes, Helmut Essen, Peter Knott, Stephan Stanko, Gregor Biegel, Martin Schröder, Ralf Brauns

Martime Radar Detection Perfromance of Fast and Slow Scan Radars Using Frequency Agility ...............................................................................................................................................................265

Michael McDonald, Anthony Damini

MIMO Radar Waveform Synthesis...............................................................................................................271Jian Li, Petre Stoica, Xumin Zhu

Estimation of the Parameters of the K-distribution Using Fuzzy Neural Networks .................................277A. Mezache, F. Soltani

Range-recursive Space-time Adaptive Processing (STAP) with a Circular Airborne Radar Antenna ............................................................................................................................................................283

Sophie Beau, Sylvie Marcos

An Airborne Radar System with Adaptive MTD Doppler Compensation Scheme using DSP Based Real-Time Spectral Estimation ..................................................................................................289

Young K. Kwag

Accidental Radio Jamming Suppression in Passive Radar .........................................................................294Heng Zheng, Hongli Zhao, Fei Li

Joint Estimation of 3-D Parameters of Coherent Signals Over Wide Frequency Band ...........................299Du Gang, Wang Yongliang, Zhang Yongshun, Jiang Xinying

Analysis of Lossless Radar Images Compression for Navigation in Marine Traffic and Remote Transmission......................................................................................................................................303

Dariusz Frejlichowski, Andrzej Lisaj

Direct, Channel-to-Channel Clutter Cancellation (DC4) with Phase-Interferometry in Multi-Channel SAR for Detecting Surface Moving Targets .......................................................................307

P. K. Sanyal, D. M. Zasada, R. P. Perry

A False Discovery Rate Based Detector for Detection of Targets in Clutter and Noise............................313Priyadip Ray,Pramod K. Varshney

High Resolution Through-the-wall Radar Imaging Using Extended Target Model .................................319Yeo-Sun Yoon, Moeness G. Amin

Target Localization Techniques and Tools for MIMO Radar ....................................................................323Hana Godrich, Alexander M. Haimovich, Rick S. Blum

Rank-Deficient APES Filter for Complex Spectral Estimation ..................................................................329Zhigang Su, Kexiang Zhang, Yingning Peng, Renbiao Wu

Low-cost Monostatic Radio-acoustic Sounding System for Indoor Temperature Profiling.....................335Graham Brooker, Javier Martinez

A Robust CFAR Detector in Non-Homogenous Environment....................................................................341Amir Zaimbashi, Yaser Norouzi

Comparison of Wideband Phased Array Concepts for Achieving Frequency Independent Radiation Characteristics ...............................................................................................................................345

R. Gunnarsson, A. Ouacha, B. Andersson, A. Nelander, R. Erickson

Random Rough Surface Scattering: Large Roughness Case ......................................................................351Marco Frasca

STAP for Airborne HPRF Pulse Doppler Radar: Developing and Testing of Algorithm on Both Simulated and Real Data .......................................................................................................................355

Nicola Battisti

A Radar Target Recognition Method with MUSIC Algorithm: Application to Aircraft Targets with Measured Scattered Data.........................................................................................................361

M. Secmen, G. Turhan-Sayan, A. Hizal

Tracking a Target Moving in a Known Road Network by Square-root Equality-constrained Filtering .......................................................................................................................................367

L. Chisci, A. Mavino, F. Papi, G. Perferi, A. Benavoli, A. Farina

Maximum Likelihood Estimation of the Forest Stem Volume from Vhf Sar Data at the Individual Tree Level......................................................................................................................................373

Anatoliy A. Kononov, Min-Ho Ka

Interleaved Tracking and Classification Strategy (ITCS) Using Medium Range .....................................379M. Patini, F. Prodi, E.Tilli, L. Timmoneri

New Approach to 2d Medium Prf Ambiguity Resolution with Application to Air Surveillance Radar..........................................................................................................................................384

Sandro Immediata, Roberto Petrucci, Luca Timmoneri, Domenico Vigilante

Sparse Frequency Transmit Waveform Design with Soft Power Constraint by Using PSO Algorithm .........................................................................................................................................................388

G. H. Wang, Y. L. Lu

Scalable Multifunction RF System: Combined Vs. Separate Transmit and Receive Arrays ...................392Albert G. Huizing

Suppression of Sidelobe Scatterers in an AESA FMCW Radar .................................................................398W.L. van Rossum, C.M. Lievers, A.P.M. Maas, A.G. Huizing

SAR Image Formation for Forward-looking Radar Receivers in Bistatic Geometry by Airborne Illumination.....................................................................................................................................403

Jens Balke

CFAR Ship Detection System Using Polarimetric Data ..............................................................................408Ting Liu, George A. Lampropoulos, Chuhong Fei

Real-time STAP Hardware Demonstrator for Airborne Radar Applications...........................................412Andrew S. Paine, Keith J. Homer, John C. Medley, Peter G. Richardson

Subspace Methods and Spatial Diversity in Radars.....................................................................................417Dave Wilcox, Mathini Sellathurai, Tharmalingam Ratnarajah

A two-step method to Process Bistatic SAR Data in the General Configuration ......................................422Robert Wang, Otmar Loffeld, Holger Nies, Qurat Ul-Ann, Amaya Medrano Ortiz, Stefan Knedlik

Beamspace Post-doppler Stap in Ground-based Rotating Radar Systems ................................................427Marc Oudin, Jean-Pierre Delmas, Claude Adnet, Frederic Barbaresco

Increasing Delay-doppler Resolution Using Chirp Diversity and Nonlinear Processing..........................433Shahzada B. Rasool, Mark R. Bell

Exploiting Frequency Diverse Array Processing to Improve SAR Image Resolution ..............................439Jawad Farooq, Michael A. Temple, Michael A. Saville

Inversion of OTH Radar Backscatter Ionograms Obtained by Scanning in Elevation ............................444E. Benito, A. Bourdillon, S. Saillant, V. Rannou, J.P. Molinie

Radar Cross Sections of Small Boats at 94 Ghz ...........................................................................................449Graham Brooker, Craig Lobsey, Ross Hennessy

The Bank-overlapped Post-doppler Method and Its System Design for Self-developed Parallel Processing Boards .............................................................................................................................455

J. Suzukiy, H. Yamadaz, Y. Yamaguchiz, M. Tanabe

Cross-range Scaling for Aircraft ISAR Images Based on Axis Slope Measurements ...............................460Ling Wang, Daiyin Zhu, Zhaoda Zhu

Mitigation of Autocorrelation Sidelobe Peaks of Orthogonal Discrete Frequency-Coding Waveform for MIMO Radar .........................................................................................................................466

Bo Liu, Zishu He, Jun Li

Characterization of Clutter Heterogeneity and Estimation of Its Covariance Matrix .............................472S. Bidon, O. Besson, J. Y. Tourneret

Performance Evaluation of Radio Frequency Interference Cancellation Techniques in HFSWR ............................................................................................................................................................478

Xin Guo, Hongbo Sun, Yilong Lu

Ant Colony Optimization Applied to Array Thinning.................................................................................484Stefano Mosca, Matteo Ciattaglia

A Practical Bistatic Passive Radar System for Use with Dab and Drm Illuminators ...............................487C.J.Coleman, R.A.Watson, H.Yardley

High Performance Future Hybrid Transceiver Module Using GaN Power Devices for Seeker Applications.........................................................................................................................................493

R.M.Liberati, M. Calori

Analysis of Medium Grazing Angle X-band Sea-clutter Doppler Spectra.................................................497Luke Rosenberg, Nick J. Stacy

An Adaptive Threshold Algorithm for Detection of Pulse Radar Signals..................................................503Enzo Carpentieri, Salvatore Cuomo

Mars North Polar Cup Subsurface Materials Property Estimation Using GPR Shallow Radar Data.......................................................................................................................................................508

M. Iorio, F. Fois, R. Mecozzi, C. Catallo, G. Picardi, R. Seu, E. Flamini

Monitoring Road Traffic with a High Resolution LFMCW Radar............................................................514J.M. Muñoz-Ferreras, J. Calvo-Gallego, F. Pérez-Martínez

Fast Radar Signal Simulator for SAR Ground Penetrating Applications .................................................519M. Iorio, F. Fois, R. Mecozzi, C. Catallo, G. Picardi, R. Seu, E. Flamini

Virtual Mimo Radar Using OFDM-CDM Waveforms ................................................................................523S. Zazo, B. Béjar, J. Grajal

Aircraft Target Measurements Using A GSM-Based Passive Radar .........................................................528Hongbo Sun, Danny K. P. Tan, Yilong Lu

Direction Finding of Ground Based Emitters from Airborne Platforms ...................................................534Libero Dinoi, Antonio Di Vito, Graziano Lubello

A New Approach to Moving Terrestrial Targets Recognition Using Ground Surveillance Pulse Doppler RADARs..................................................................................................................................540

Mohammad Alaeey, Hamidreza Amindavary, Ali Moghaddamjoo Reza

An Incoherent Simulator for the Sharad Experiment .................................................................................546Federica Russo, Marco Cutigni, Roberto Orosei, Carlo Taddei, Roberto Seu, Daniela Biccari, Emanuele Giacomoni, Oreste Fuga, Enrico Flamini

On Relationship Between Traditional and Knowledge-based Clutter Covariance Estimate ...................550Yong Wu, Jun Tang, Yingning Peng

Kernel-based Storm Tracking in Radar Data ..............................................................................................556C. Picus, C. Beleznai, C. Nowak, H. Ramoser, S. Mitterhuber

Multiple-Target Localization and Estimation of MIMO Radars Using Capon and APES techniques ........................................................................................................................................................562

Wei Xia, Zishu He

Efficient Methods of Doppler Processing for Coexisting Land and Weather Clutter...............................568Cagatay Candan, A. Ozgur Y lmaz

Reducing Clutter In Airborne Radars Equipped With Active Electronically Steered Array Antennas By Using A Novel Receive Aperture Weighting ..........................................................................573

Paul S. Rose, Christopher D. Finlay

Design, Development and Test on Real Data of an Fm Based Prototypical Passive Radar......................578A. Di Lallo, A. Farina, R. Fulcoli, P. Genovesi, R. Lalli, R. Mancinelli

High Range Resolution with Digital Stretch Processing ..............................................................................584Michael Schikorr

Multi-target Detection Using Noise-like Signals ...........................................................................................590Jacques Raout, Jean-Philippe Preaux

Mlp Solutions for Approximating the Average Likelihood Radio Detector in Radar Applications .....................................................................................................................................................595

Mata-Moya D., Jarabo-Amores P., Vicen-Bueno R., Nieto-Borge J.C., Rosa-Zurera M., López-Ferreras F.

mmw Active Phased Array Seeker project for Hit To Kill Engagement ...................................................601Luigi Proietti Cecchini, Emidio Pizzingrilli, Simone Russo

Micro-doppler Analysis of Pedestrians in ISAR Imaging ...........................................................................607A. Ghaleb, L. Vignaud, J. M. Nicolas

TRMC: a Single Processing Chain for SAR/ISAR Imaging........................................................................612A. Aprile, D. Meledandri, T. Macrì Pellizzeri, A. Mauri

Moving Target Localization with Multistatic Radar Systems.....................................................................618P.F. Sammartino, C.J. Baker, M. Rangaswamy

From the expected Scientific Applications to the Functional Specifications, Products and Performance of the SABRINA missions........................................................................................................624

A. Renga, A. Moccia, M. D’Errico, S. Dellepiane, E. Angiati, G. Vernazza, P. Lombardo, F. Colone, M. Sedehi, D. Cristallini, S. Pignataro, Q. Rioli, G. Milillo, C. Bruno, F. Di Giorgio, M. Labriola

Coherent Synthesis Sparse Aperture Radar with Grating lobes Suppressed Using Frequency MIMO Technique ........................................................................................................................630

Long Zhuang, Xingzhao Liu

Image-while-scan Results from the X-band Wideband Experimental Airborne Radar...........................635Anthony Damini, Mike McDonald, Vince Mantle

Design of a Ridged Waveguide Feed Network for a Wideband Rotman Lens Antenna Array ................................................................................................................................................................640

Peter Knott

Partitioning and Parallelization Schemes for a Real-time Implementation of the RMC Algorithm .........................................................................................................................................................644

A. Aprile, A. Mauri, N. Pendeggia

Space-Time Adaptive Processing for noise-radar ........................................................................................650Jacques Raout

Range-dependence Compensation in Airborne Bistatic STAP Radar for Partially-calibrated Conformal Antenna Arrays .........................................................................................................656

Philippe Ries, Fabian D. Lapierre, Marc Lesturgie, Jacques G. Verly

Radar Classification Evaluation ....................................................................................................................662Graeme E. Smith, Michele Vespe, Karl Woodbridge, Chris J. Baker

A New Approach to Compress Multicarrier Phase-Coded Signals ............................................................668R. Mohseni, A. Sheikhi, M.A. Masnadi Shirazi

Fully Polarimetric Analysis of Weather Radar Signatures .........................................................................674Michele Galletti, David H. O. Bebbington, Madhu Chandra, Thomas Boerner

3-D Hough Transform for Surveillance Radar Target Detection ...............................................................680A. Moqiseh, M. M. Nayebi

Acceleration Estimation for Passive Coherent Location Radar..................................................................685Mateusz Malanowski, Krzysztof Kulpa, Jacek Misiurewicz

Grifo Radar: Advances and Developments in High-resolution Modes for an Expert Avionic Radar for Fighters...........................................................................................................................................690

A. Aprile, A. Mauri, D. Meledandri, T. Macrì Pellizzeri, N. Pendeggia

Radar Detection Using Siegel Distance Between Autoregressive Processes, Application to HF and X-band Radar ....................................................................................................................................695

J. Lapuyade-Lahorgue, F. Barbaresco

CFRP-based Broad-band Radar Absorbing Materials ...............................................................................701C. Mitrano, A. Balzano, M. Bertacca, M. Flaccavento, R. Mancinelli

QUASI-optimal Signal Processing in Ground Forward Scattering Radar ................................................707Cheng Hu, Michail Antoniou, Mikhail Cherniakov, Vladimir Sizov

Impact of Measurement Model Mismatch on Nonlinear Track-Before-Detect Performance..................713Michael McDonald, Bhashyam Balaji

Multistatic Micro-Doppler Signature Of Personnel.....................................................................................719Graeme E. Smith, Karl Woodbridge, Chris J. Baker

QUASI-optimal Signal Processing in Ground Forward Scattering Radar ................................................725Cheng Hu, Michail Antoniou, Mikhail Cherniakov, Vladimir Sizov

Real-time Signal Processing System for High Resolution CWLFM Millimeter-wave Radars.................731Javier Carretero Moya, Wang Zongbo, Álvaro Blanco del Campo, Javier Gismero Menoyo, Alberto Asensio López

SAR Tomography for Scene Elevation and Deformation Reconstruction: Algorithms and Potentialities ....................................................................................................................................................736

F. Lombardini, G. Fornaro, M. Pardini, D. Reale, F. Serafino, F. Soldovieri, M.Costantini

A New Approach for Estimation and Compensation of Target Translational Motion in ISAR Imaging ..................................................................................................................................................743

A. Aprile, D. Meledandri, T. Macrì Pellizzeri, A. Mauri

SHARAD, a Shallow Radar Sounder to Investigate the Red Planet...........................................................749Roberto Seu, Emanuele Giacomoni, Daniela Biccari, Marco Cutigni, Federica Russo, Carlo Taddei, Oreste Fuga, Roberto Orosei, Riccardo Mecozzi, Franco Fois, Renato Croci, Claudio Catallo,Giovanni Alberti, Stefania Mattei, Claudio Papa, Enrico Flamini

Large Doppler Shift in RADAR Detection of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays .......................................753David G. Underwood

Innovative T/R Module in State-of-the-art GAN Technology .....................................................................758A. Bettidi, M. Calori, A Cetronio, M. Cicolani, C. Costrini, C. Lanzieri, S. Maccaroni, L. Marescialli, M. Peroni

High Range Resolution (HRR) Profiling Within Low Elevation Search Mode .........................................763Fabio Bonanni , Claudio Ponzi , Quoc Henry Pham

Evaluation of WiFi Beacon Transmissions for Wireless Based Passive Radar .........................................769H. Guo, K. Woodbridge, C. J. Baker

Wavefront Reconstruction of 3D Cylindrical Subsurface Radar Imagery: a Study on Synthetic Phantoms.........................................................................................................................................775

Daniel Flores-Tapia, Gabriel Thomas, Stephen Pistorius

Improvements on the Aries-C weather radar Tuscany network ................................................................781A. Antonini , P.G Dal Farra, F. Farruggio , S. Melani , M. Pieri

TRES: Multiradar-multisensor Data Processing Assessment Using Opportunity Targets......................787Juan Besada, Gonzalo de Miguel, Andres Soto

ASTRAD: Simulation Platform, a Breakthrough for Future Electromagnetic Systems Development ....................................................................................................................................................793

Philippe Guguen, Cédric Lignoux, Dominique Goumand, Pierre Saulais, Philippe Reuillon

Failure Mitigation of Semi Active Multi Beam Antenna Array for Portable Surveillance Radar Using Genetic Algorithm ....................................................................................................................798

Shubha Elizabeth Avirah, Anil Kumar Singh

On Centralized Composite Detection with Distributed Sensors .................................................................804Cuichun Xu, Steven Kay

Adaptive Calibration in UWB Radar ............................................................................................................810M. Gashinova, V. Djigan, L.Y. Daniel, M. Cherniakov

Automatic Target Recognition in Synthetic Aperture Radar Image Using Multiresolution Analysis and Classifiers Combination ..........................................................................................................816

João Paulo Pordeus Gomes, José Fernando Basso Brancalion, David Fernandes

DTOA Estimation of Pulse Trains by means of Cross-Correlation Technique .........................................821Riccardo Ardoino, Fabio Capriati

The UAVSAR Instrument: Description and First Results ..........................................................................827Scott Hensley, Kevin Wheeler, Greg Sadowy, Cathleen Jones, Scott Shaffer, Howard Zebker, Tim Miller, Brandon Heavey, Ernie Chuang, Roger Chao, Ken Vines, Kouji Nishimoto, Jack Prater, Bruce Carrico, Neil Chamberlain, Joanne Shimada, Marc Simard

OFDM Waveforms for Frequency Agility and Opportunities for Doppler Processing in Radar................................................................................................................................................................833

G. Lellouch, P. Tran, R. Pribic, P. van Genderen

An Approach to Ship Motion Estimation with Dual-Receive Antenna SAR .............................................839Marina V. Dragosevic, Michael D. Henschel, Charles E. Livingstone

An Improved Map of the Lunar South Pole with Earth Based Radar Interferometry ............................845Scott Hensley, Eric Gurrola, Paul Rosen, Martin Slade, Joseph Jao, Mike Kobrick, Barbara Wilson, Curtis Chen, Raymond Jurgens

OFDM-based Wideband Phased Array Radar Architecture ......................................................................851John P. Stralka, Gerard G. L. Meyer

Mimo Radar Receiver Design ........................................................................................................................857William Roberts, Jian Li, Petre Stoica, Xumin Zhu

Autofocusing for RF Tomography Using Particle Swarm Optimization ...................................................863Jason T. Parker, John Norgard

Performance Evaluation of Parametric Rao and GLRT Detectors with KASSPER and Bistatic Data.....................................................................................................................................................869

Pu Wang, Kwang June Sohn, Hongbin Li, Braham Himed

Transpose Domain Filtering: Dual Algorithms in Adaptive Filtering........................................................875M.E. Weippert, C.M. Coviello, J.D. Hiemstra, J.S. Goldstein

Heterogeneity Detection for Hybrid STAP Algorithm.................................................................................881Elias Aboutanios, Bernard Mulgrew

A Fast Method for Designing Optimal Transmit Codes for Radar ............................................................885James D. Jenshak, James M. Stiles

From Radar to Nodar .....................................................................................................................................891C. Falessi, A. M. Fiorello, A. Di Carlo, M. L. Terranova

Nonadaptive MIMO Radar Techniques for Reducing Clutter ...................................................................897Daniel J. Rabideau

The Effects of Sea Clutter on the Performance of HF Surface Wave Radar in Ship Detection ..........................................................................................................................................................903

Hank Leong, Anthony Ponsford

Adaptive MIMO Radar Waveforms..............................................................................................................909Daniel J. Rabideau

The Measurement of Titan Rotational State by Means of SAR Imaging...................................................915P. Persi del Marmo, L. Iess, G. Picardi, R. Seu

Multistatic Target Classification with Adaptive Waveforms ......................................................................920Thomas B. Butler, Nathan A. Goodman

VSAR Parameter Estimation Based on Azimuth Multi-look Processing ...................................................926Jia Xu, Gang Li, Ying-Ning Peng, Xiang-Gen Xia, Yong-liang Wang

The Soil Moisture Active/passive (SMAP) Radar ........................................................................................931Michael Spencer, Yunjin Kim, Samuel Chan

Using Second Order Residue in PolInSAR Phase Unwrapping ..................................................................936Yong Bian, Bryan Mercer

Adaptive Processing in High Frequency Surface Wave Radar...................................................................941O. Saleh, R. S. Adve, R. J. Riddolls, M. Ravan, K. Plataniotis

Improved Doppler Centroid Tracking for ISAR Based on Target Extraction..........................................947Chun-mao Ye, Jia Xu, Ying-ning Peng, Xiu-tan Wang

Wide-band Pulse-echo Imaging with Distributed Apertures in Multi-path Environments .....................951T. Varslot, B. Yaz c , M. Cheney

Development of a High Resolution Mmw Radar Employing an Antenna with Combined Frequency and Mechanical Scanning............................................................................................................957

David Graham Johnson

Cyclostationarity-Based Signal Separation in Interceptors Based on a Single Sensor .............................962Omar A. Yeste-Ojeda, Jesus Grajal

RF Interference Suppression for Bistatic HF Surface Wave SIAR ............................................................968Liu Chunbo, Chen Baixiao, Zhang Shouhong

Dismount Modeling and Detection from Small Aperture Moving Radar Platforms ................................972Ryan K. Hersey, William L. Melvin, Edwin Culpepper

Adaptive Filtering for Conformal Array Radar...........................................................................................978Ryan K. Hersey, William L. Melvin, Edwin Culpepper

Joint Transient and CW External-Noise Mitigation in Heavy Clutter.......................................................984Y.I. Abramovich, P. Turcaj, N.K. Spencer

Performance of 2–D Mixed Autoregressive Models for Airborne Radar STAP: KASSPER-Aided Analysis .................................................................................................................................................990

Y.I. Abramovich, M. Rangaswamy, B.A. Johnson, P.M. Corbell, N.K. Spencer

Long Memory Models for the Analysis and Simulation of Multi-channel Airborne Radar Measurement (MCARM) Data ......................................................................................................................995

Massimo Bertacca

Stepped-frequency Range Profiling of Multiple Overlapped Targets ......................................................1001Zhu Yongfeng, Zhao Hongzhong, Fu Qiang, Le Daobin

Optimal Training Sample Partitioning for Two-Stage Adaptive Detectors.............................................1005Yuri I. Abramovich, Ben A. Johnson, Nicholas K. Spencer

Estimating the Precession Angle of Ballistic Targets in Midcourse Based on HRRP Sequence.........................................................................................................................................................1011

He Sisan, Zhou Jianxiong, Zhao Hongzhong, Le Daobin

Limits on the Detection of Low-Doppler Targets By a High Frequency Hybrid Sky-Surface Wave Radar System ......................................................................................................................................1015

Ryan J. Riddolls

A Doppler Centroid Estimation Method Using the Radon Transform for Forward-squint SAR Imaging .................................................................................................................................................1019

Huaying Xie, Hongzhong Zhao, Jianxiong Zhou, Ting Gong

Detection of multiple targets in Non-Gaussian clutter...............................................................................1024Ulku Cilek Doyuran, Yalcin Tanik

A Novel Discrimination Method of Ship and Chaff Based on Sparseness for Naval Radar...................1029Tang Guangfu, Zhao Ke, Zhao Hongzhong, Zhu Zhenzhen

Performance Improvements in Mimo SAR ................................................................................................1033Min Gong, Xiaoming Wang, Shunji Huang

Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar Based on Digital Beamforming and Waveform Diversity .........................................................................................................................................................1036

Gerhard Krieger, Nicolas Gebert, Marwan Younis, Alberto Moreira

Analysis of Sea State Parameters and Ocean Currents from Temporal Sequences of Marine Radar Images of the Sea Surface....................................................................................................1042

Jose C Nieto-Borge, Katrin Hessner, Pilar Jarabo-Amores, David de la Mata Moya

Performance Analysis of Tm-cfar Detection in Time Diversity Systems for Pulse-to-pulse Correlated Targets in Presence of Clutter Edges and Outlying Targets: a Comparison Through Extensive Simulations ...................................................................................................................1047

Toufik Laroussi, Mourad Barkat, Nassim Benadjina

Chaff Clutter Filtering from Radar Data with Discrete Wavelet Transform..........................................1053Ilkka Ellonen, Arto Kaarna

Constant Envelope OFDM Signals for RAdar Applications .....................................................................1059R. Mohseni, A. Sheikhi, M.A. Masnadi Shirazi

Waveform Optimization for Electronic Countermeasure Technique Generation ..................................1064James Townsend, Michael A. Saville, Seng Hong, Richard K. Martin, Chad Simpson, Oscar Mayhew

Adaptive Radar Detection of Distributed Targets under Conic Constraints...........................................1070Francesco Bandiera, Danilo Orlando, Giuseppe Ricci

Synthetic Aperture Radar Raw Data Encoding Using Compressed Sensing...........................................1076Sujit Bhattacharya, Thomas Blumensath, Bernard Mulgrew, Mike Davies

Adaptive SAR Data Processing with Automatic Range Cell Migration Correction in Doppler Domain ............................................................................................................................................1081

Kaizhi Wang, Xingzhao Liu

Doppler Synthetic Aperture Hitchhiker Imaging.......................................................................................1086Can Evren Yarman, Birsen Yazc

Detection of Known Targets in Weibull Clutter Based on Neural Networks. Robustness Study against Target Parameters Changes .................................................................................................1092

R. Vicen-Bueno, M.P. Jarabo-Amores, M. Rosa-Zurera, R. Gil-Pita, D. Mata-Moya

Radar Sensor Networks with Distributed Detection Capabilities.............................................................1098Loreto Pescosolido, Sergio Barbarossa, Gesualdo Scutari

The Development of Over-the-horizon Radar at the Naval Research Laboratory .................................1104James Headrick, Joseph Thomason

Simulation of Human MicroDopplers Using Computer Animation Data ................................................1109Shobha Sundar Ram, Hao Ling

Target and Change Detection in Synthetic Aperture Radar Sensing of Urban Structures....................1115Jeannie Moulton, Saleem Kassam, Fauzia Ahmad, Moeness Amin, Konstantin Yemelyanov

Radar Detection and Angle Estimation of Over-resolved Ground Vehicles ............................................1121Gregory A. Showman, William L. Melvin, Marshall Greenspan

Thales Components and Technologies for T/R Modules ...........................................................................1127Y. Mancuso

Glacio RADAR system and results ..............................................................................................................1132A. Zirizzotti, J.A.Baskaradas, C. Bianchi , U. Sciacca, I. E. Tabacco, E. Zuccheretti

The Operation and Performance of a Multi-frequency HF Surfacewave Radar ....................................1135D. J. Emery, G. Dickel

Adaptive Tomographic Sensors For Below Ground Imaging ...................................................................1141Michael C. Wicks, John D. Norgard, Todd N. Cushman

Development of Space-surface Bistatic Synthetic Aperture Radar with Gnss Trasmnitter of Opportunity ...............................................................................................................................................1146

Rajesh Saini, Rui Zuo, M.Cherniakov

Target Identification in a MIMO Environment .........................................................................................1152Ismail Jouny

Along Track Interferometry for Foliage Penetration Moving Target Indication ...................................1156Robert Kapfer, Mark E. Davis

Multiple Scattering of Hf Skywave Radar Signals : Physics, Interpretation and Exploitation....................................................................................................................................................1162

Stuart Anderson

Aerospace System Improvements Enabled by Modern Phased Array Radar - 2008..............................1167Robert Hendrix

Adaptive Waveform Diversity for Cross-channel Interference Mitigation..............................................1173Maria Greco, Fulvio Gini, Pietro Stinco, Alfonso Farina, Lucio Verrazzani

Phased-Array and Radar Astounding Breakthroughs -- An Update .......................................................1179Eli Brookner

Sensor Placement Algorithms for Target Localization in Sensor Networks............................................1185Ramesh Rajagopalan, Ruixin Niu, Chilukuri K. Mohan, Pramod K. Varshney§, Andrew L. Drozd

Precision GMTI Tracking using Road Constraints with Visibility Information and a Refined Sensor Model ...................................................................................................................................1191

M. Mertens, M. Ulmke

Radar Waveform for Automotive Radar Systems and Applications........................................................1197Hermann Rohling, Christof Möller

Null Phase-shift Polarization Filter for High Frequency Radar Radio Interference Suppressing....................................................................................................................................................1201

Xing-Peng Mao, Wei-Bo Deng, Yong-Tan Liu

A Wideband Technique for Micro-ranging in OTHR ...............................................................................1207Rod I. Barnes, G. Fred Earl

Parametric Scattering Models for Bistatic Synthetic Aperture Radar ....................................................1213Julie Ann Jackson, Brian D. Rigling, Randolph L. Moses

Nanotechnology RADAR Thermal Management .......................................................................................1218C. Falessi, A. M. Fiorello, F. Toschi, E. Tamburri, S. Orlanducci, M. L. Terranova, A. Di Carlo, Daniele Passeri, Marco Rossi

ERS Differential SAR Interferometry: a Powerful Tool for Surface Deformation Analysis .................1224R. Lanari, E. Sansosti

Sentinel-1, the GMES Radar Mission..........................................................................................................1230Paul Snoeij, Evert Attema, Malcolm Davidson, Nicolas Floury,Guido Levrini, Betlem Rosich, Björn Rommen

OFDM Radar Signal Design with Optimized Ambiguity Function ..........................................................1235M. A. Sebt, Y. Norouzi, A. Sheikhi, M. M. Nayebi

Multiscan Association As a Multi-commodity Flow Optimization Problem............................................1240G. Battistelli, L. Chisci, F. Papi , A. Benavoli , A. Farina

A Radar Target for Calibration and for Codes Validation .......................................................................1246Danilo Erricolo, Roberto D. Graglia, Timothy Stoia, Piergiorgio L.E. Uslenghi

Advanced Interferometric SAR Techniques with TanDEM-X .................................................................1249Alberto Moreira, Gerhard Kriege, Hauke Fiedler, Irena Hajnsek, Marwan Younis, Manfred Zink, Marian Werner

Advances in SAR Polarimetry Applications Exploiting Polarimetric Spaceborne Sensors ...................1254Eric Pottier, Laurent Ferro-famil

Active-Phased-Array System Noise Temperature......................................................................................1260Eli Brookner

FM-based Passive Bistatic Radar As a Function of Available Bandwidth...............................................1266K E Olsen, C J Baker

Radar Processing with the IBM Cell Broadband Engine ..........................................................................1274A. Corsaro, E. Giaccari, S. Nave, J. Derby, F. Casadei, A. Perciante

Mars Ionosphere Data Inversion by MARSIS Surface and Subsurface Signals Analysis ......................1278G. Picardi, M. Cartacci, A.Cicchetti, M. Cutigni, M. Iorio, A. Masdea, R. Seu, J.J.Plaut, W.T.K.Johnson, R.L.Jordan, A.Safaeinili, O.Bombaci, D.Calabrese, E.Zampolini, D.A. Gurnett , E. Nielsen

Marsis Data Inversion Approach:Preliminary Results .............................................................................1283G. Picardi, D. Biccari, M. Cartacci, A.Cicchetti, S. Giuppi, A. Marini , A.Masdea, R.Noschese, F. Piccari, J.J.Plaut, W.T.K.Johnson, R.L.Jordan, A.Safaeinili, C.Federico, A.Frigeri, P.T.Melacci, R. Orosei

Surface Estimation in Bistatic Radar Altimetre.........................................................................................1287Giovanni Picardia , Arturo Masdeaa , Pietro Tito Melaccib, R.Seu

Subsurface Sounding in Northern Hemisphere of Mars by Marsis: Mars Express Mission..................1293G. Picardi, D. Biccari, M. Cartacci, A.Cicchetti, M.Iorio, A. Masdea, R. Seu, J.J.Plaut, W.T.K. Johnson, R.L.Jordan, A.Safaeinili, A.Frigeri, P.T.Melacci, R. Orosei

HAF-based Spectral Analysis of First-order Sea Clutter in Bistatic Shipborne Surface Wave Radar ...................................................................................................................................................1299

Bo Li, Bin Xu, Yeshu Yuan

H/a Polarimetric Features For Man-Made Target Classification.............................................................1305F. Berizzi, M. Martorella, A. Capria, R. Paladini, D. Calugi

PBR Activity at INFOCOM: Adaptive Processing Techniques and Experimental Results ...................1311P. Lombardo, F. Colone, C. Bongioanni, A. Lauri, T. Bucciarelli

Sparse Tensors and Discrete-Time Nonlinear Filtering ............................................................................1317Bhashyam Balaji, Anthony Damini

Advances in SAR interferometry for Sentinel-1 with TOPS .....................................................................1323F. De Zan, A. Monti Guarnieri, F. Rocca

SAR Raw Data Simulation in case of Motion Errors.................................................................................1329A. S. Khwaja, L. Ferro-Famil, E. Pottier

Where Next For Airborne AESA Technology? ..........................................................................................1334A.M.Kinghorn

Effect of Wind on Space-Based Radar Performance .................................................................................1338S. Unnikrishna Pillai, Ke Yong Li, Braham Himed

Waveform Design Optimization using Bandwidth and Energy Considerations .....................................1343S. Unnikrishna Pillai, Ke Yong Li, Howard Beyer

Amplitude and Phase Distributions for Bistatic Scattering from Pierson-Moskowitz Sea Surfaces ..........................................................................................................................................................1348

Kung-Hau Ding, Muralidhar Rangaswamy, Leung Tsang

Current Interferometry Results in Canada ................................................................................................1354Ian G. Cumming, Bernhard Rabus, Bryan Mercer

Recent Advances in Polarimetric SAR Interferometry for Forest Parameter Estimation .....................1360Konstantinos P.Papathanassiou, Florian Kugler, Seungkuk Lee, Luca Marotti, Irena Hajnsek

A Method of Establishing Template Database for High Resolution Radar Target Identification..................................................................................................................................................1366

Haili Xu , Yang Wang , Wenjun Yang , Daoqing Wu

Innovative Tools for Radar Signal Processing Based on Cartan’s Geometry of SPD Matrices & Information Geometry..............................................................................................................1370

F. Barbaresco

Protection of Radar Systems Against Nearby Or Direct Lightning Strokes............................................1376A.Annunziata, A.Dominicis, G.Antonini, A.Orlandi, F.Fiamingo, C.Mazzetti

Measuring Time Between Peaks in Helicopter Classification Using Continuous Wavelet Transform ......................................................................................................................................................1382

Heraldo C. A. Costa, Marcílio C. de Matos

Signal Detection by Square Law Receivers Using the Experimental System PALES.............................1388Josef G. Worms

Noise Considerations for Wideband True Time Delay Photonic Beamformers ......................................1393R. Rotman, S. Rotman, M. Tur

ATR Performance Assessment of Target Type Number for HRR Radar................................................1399He Jun, Zhao Hong-zhong, Fu Qiang

An Integrated Procedure for Rainfall Estimation Using C-band Dual-polarization Weather Radars ............................................................................................................................................................1404

Luca Baldini, Eugenio Gorgucci, Vito Romaniello

Distributed RADAR Waveform Design Based on Compressive Sensing Considerations.......................1408Nikola S. Subotic, Brian Thelen, Kyle Cooper, William Buller, Jason Parker, James Browning, Howard Beyer

The German Satellite Mission TerraSAR-X ...............................................................................................1414S. Buckreuss, R. Werninghaus, W. Pitz

On the Design of a 2D Array HF Skywave Radar......................................................................................1419F. Berizzi, E. Dalle Mese, A. Monorchio, A. Capria, R. Soleti

Generation and Assimilation of Propagation Advice for HF Skywave Radar Systems ..........................1425S.J.Anderson, F. Berizzi, C. Bianchi

Diversity Order of Joint Detection in Distributed Radar Networks.........................................................1431Rani Daher, Raviraj Adve

Combinational Hough Transform for Surveillance Radar Target Detection in a 3-D Data Map.................................................................................................................................................................1437

A. Moqiseh, M. M. Nayebi

A Robust CFAR Detection with ML Estimation ........................................................................................1443Abdollah Pourmottaghi, Mohammad Reza Taban, Yaser Norouzi, Mohammad Taghi Sadeghi

Wavenumber-space Analysis and Imaging Algorithm Based on Distributed Multi-channel Radars ............................................................................................................................................................1448

Hu Weidong, Du Xiaoyong, Han Xingbin

Maritime Multi-sensor Data Association Based on Geographic and Navigational Knowledge......................................................................................................................................................1453

Michele Vespe, Massimo Sciotti, Fabrizio Burro, Giulia Battistello, Stefano Sorge

Exploiting Convexity in Array Antenna Synthesis Problems....................................................................1459O. M. Bucci, M. D’Urso, T. Isernia

SAR Imaging using a Modern 2D Spectral Estimation Method ...............................................................1465E. Yadin, D. Olmar, O. Oron , R. Nathansohn

Robust STAP in Non-Gaussian Clutter via Infinity-norm Snapshot-normalization ..............................1471Ting Shu , Jin He , Xingzhao Liu

Engineering Demands Placed on Littoral Radar Due to Nonstandard Propagation Revealed by Mesoscale Numerical Weather Prediction Technology ........................................................1477

Robert E. Marshall, Tracy Haack

Theory and Application of Optimum and Adaptive MIMO Radar .........................................................1483J. R. Guerci, M. C. Wicks, J. S. Bergin, P. M. Techau, S. U. Pillai

Airborne Radar STAP Using Long-memory Clutter Models ...................................................................1489Massimo Bertacca

Review of the State of the Art of Uk Aesa Technology and the Future Challenges Faced .....................1495Stephen Moore

Experimental Verification of Cosmo-skymed SAR Capabilities...............................................................1501R. Venturini, F. Fois, G. Sirocchi, A. Bauleo, A. Bazzoni, L. Borgarelli, P. Capece, L. Cereoli, R. Croci, C. Farina, P. Pepe, C. Scarchilli, A. Torre, A. Capuzi, F. Caltagirone

Analysis of Antenna Pointing Errors on SAR Image Quality ...................................................................1506D. Giudici, D. D’Aria, A. Monti Guarnieri, A. Bazzoni, R. Venturini

Mathematical Analysis of Main-to-sidelobe Ratio After Pulse Compression in Pseudorandom Code Phase Modulation CW Radar..................................................................................1512

Jinli Chen, Hong Gu, Hankang Wang, Weimin Su

COSMO-SkyMed Mission Simulator ..........................................................................................................1517F. Di Giorgio, F. Battazza, A. Coletta, A. Francioni , I. Rana, G. Valentini

A SIRV-CFAR Adaptive Detector Exploiting Persymmetric Clutter Covariance Structure ................1522Guilhem Pailloux, Jean-Philippe Ovarlez, Frederic Pascal, Philippe Forster

COSMO-SkyMed: Calibration & Validation resources and activities.....................................................1528D. Calabrese, A. Cricenti, V. Grimani, D. Scaranari, R. Vigliotti, F. Covello, G. Marano

COSMO-SkyMed System Commissioning: End-to-End System Performance Verification ..................1534S.Mezzasoma, A.Gallon, F.Impagnatiello, G.Angino, S.Fagioli

Numerical Modeling Results of Radar Signatures for Large and Complex Targets ..............................1539Frank Weinmann, Andreas Tzoulis

Hough Transform Based Automatic Pipe Detection for Array GPR: Algorithm Development and On-site Tests....................................................................................................................1545

Alessandro Simi , Stefania Bracciali , Guido Manacorda

Cosmo-Skymed: First Results of Sar In-Flight Calibration ......................................................................1551Andrea Torre, Luigi Cereoli

SAR Characterization Through Amplitude and Phase Measure of Transmit-receive Modules ..........................................................................................................................................................1556

A. Torre, M. Iorio, P. Pepe

Mission Design Concepts for Next Generation Defence Space Observation Systems .............................1561A. Francioni, M. Piemontese

Digital Beamforming for Passive Coherent Location Radar.....................................................................1567Mateusz Malanowski, Krzysztof Kulpa

ISAR Cross-range Scaling Using a Correlation Based Functional ...........................................................1573Francesco Prodi

Switched Order Statistics CFAR Test for Target.......................................................................................1579Anas Tom, R. Viswanathan

Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing in Distributed Radar Apertures .....................................1584Earnest Lock, Raviraj S. Adve

Cosmo Skymed Active Phased Array SAR Instrument.............................................................................1590P. Capece, L. Borgarelli, M. Di Lazzaro, U. Di Marcantonio, A. Torre

Monitoring Water Defense Structures Using Radar Interferometry .......................................................1594Ramon F. Hanssen, Freek J. van Leijen

Diversity Order and Detection Performance of MIMO Radar: a Relative Entropy Based Study...............................................................................................................................................................1598

Jun Tang, Yong Wu, Yingning Peng

FLoSAR: A new concept for Synthetic Aperture Radar ...........................................................................1603Giorgio Franceschetti, Antonio Iodice, Daniele Riccio

Scatterer Excursion Compensation in Sequential Radar Image Projections...........................................1607Daniel André

Multisensor Data Fusion in Network-Centric Operations.........................................................................1613Felix Opitz

Tracking of the Multi-Dimensional Parameters of a Target Signal using Particle Filtering .................1619Xuefeng Yin, Troels Pedersen, Gerhard Steinbock, Gunvor Elisabeth Kirkelund, Peter Blattnig, Alain Jaquier, Bernard H. Fleury

Analysis of Concatenated Waveforms and Required STC ........................................................................1625Jian Wang, Eli Brookner, Mark Gerecke

On the Use of Empirical Likelihood for Non-Gaussian Clutter Covariance Matrix Estimation ......................................................................................................................................................1631

Hugo Harari-Kermadec, Frederic Pascal

Broad Band Radar for High Resolution Observation of Precipitation ....................................................1637Tomoo Ushio, Eiichi Yoshikawa, Tomoaki Mega, Takeshi Morimoto, Zen-Ichiro Kawasaki

Area and Power Efficient Mismatched Filters based on Sidelobe Inversion ...........................................1642Adly T. Fam, Indranil Sarkar, Thomas Poonnen

Parameter Estimation of Texture in High-resolution Radar Clutter by Mellin Transform ..................1648C. Bhattacharya, Abhishek Sen, A. Kar

MIMO Noise Radar – Matched Filters and Coarrays ...............................................................................1652Douglas A Gray, Amerigo Capria

Recent Results in MIMO Over-the-Horizon Radar ...................................................................................1658G. J. Frazer, Y. I. Abramovich, B. A. Johnsonz, F. C. Robey

Detection and Localization of High Speed Moving Targets Using a Short-Range UWB Impulse Radar ...............................................................................................................................................1664

Guohua Wei, Yuxiang Zhou, Siliang Wu

Imaging the Rotor Blades of Hovering Helicopters with SAR ..................................................................1668B. C. Barber

A Parametric Adaptive Radar Detector......................................................................................................1674Francesco Bandiera, Danilo Orlando, Giuseppe Ricci

Space-time Adaptive Detection for Airborne Multifunction Radar .........................................................1679Wolfram Burger, Ulrich Nickel

Rotation Motion Estimation for High Resolution ISAR and Hybrid SAR/ISAR Target Imaging ..........................................................................................................................................................1684

Debora Pastina

Code Optimization with Similarity and Accuracy Constraints ................................................................1690S. De Nicola, Y. Huang, A. De Maio, S. Zhang, A. Farina

Study of Information Content of SAR Images............................................................................................1696

M. Aragone, A. Caridi , S. B. Serpico, G. Moser, D. Cerra, M. Datcu

Knowledge-Aided Covariance Matrix Estimation: a MAXDET Approach ............................................1702L. Landi, A. De Maio, S. De Nicola, A. Farina

SAR Image Segmentation Using 2D Four Channel Filter Bank with Lattice Structure ........................1708I. Erer, S. Kent, M. Kartal

Size Reduction and Radiation Optimization on UWB Antenna ...............................................................1712A. Godard, V. Bertrand, J. Andrieu, M. Lalande, B. Jecko, M. Brishoual, S. Colson, R. Guillerey

Frequency Diversity in Multistatic Radars .................................................................................................1717Byung Wook Jung, Raviraj S. Adve, Joohwan Chun

Estimation of Rotation in ISAR Imaging Based on Local Sharpness Measure .......................................1723T. Berger, S. E. Hamran, T. Sparr

Use of a Weather Radar for Quantification of Migrating Birds ...............................................................1729C. Capsoni, R. Nebuloni, D. Bassi

Impact of Wave Refraction due to Environmental Conditions on Image Processing Quality in High Resolution SAR................................................................................................................................1734

Peggy Decroix, Xavier Neyt, Marc Acheroy

Multipolar SAR ATR: Experiments with the GTRI Dataset ....................................................................1739Amit Kumar Mishra, Bernard Mulgrew

High Resolution Radar Imaging from Incomplete Data............................................................................1744I. Erer, S. Kent, M. Kartal

Real Time MTI Stap First Results from Sostar-X Flight Trials ...............................................................1748D. Zei, F. Mele, P. Tellini, A. Montanari, A. Fusaroli, P. Di Grazia, G. Annessi

On Divided-Fitting Method of Large Distorted Reflector Antennas based Coons Surface....................1754C. S. Wang, F. Zheng, F. S. Zhang

Complex SAR Image Characterization using Space Variant Spectral Analysis .....................................1759Anca Popescu, Inge Gavat, Mihai Datcu

Radar Tracking of a Move-Stop-Move Maneuvering Target in Clutter..................................................1763Salvatore Maresca, Maria Greco, Fulvio Gini, Lucio Verrazzani

Space-time Clutter Model for Airborne Bistatic Radar with Non-gaussian Statistics............................1769Rui Duan, Xuegang Wang, Zhuming Chen

Cassini Radar: Expectations and Results After Three Years of Operations ...........................................1775Enrico Flamini, Stephen Wall, William T.K. Johnson

Propagation Model, Optimal Geometry and Receiver Design for RF Geotomography .........................1779Lorenzo Lo Monte, Danilo Erricolo

Sparse Antenna Array Design and combined Range and Angle Estimation for FMCW Radar Sensors................................................................................................................................................1785

Reinhard Feger, Stefan Schuster, Stefan Scheiblhofer, A. Stelzer

Signal Model and Statistical Analysis for the Sequential Sampling Pulse Radar Technique.................1791S. Schuster, S. Scheiblhofer, R. Feger, A. Stelzer

Measurement and Analysis of Clutter Signal from GSM/DCS-based Passive Radar.............................1797Antonio De Maio, Goffredo Foglia, Nicola Pasquino, Michele Vadursi

Fractal parameters and SAR images...........................................................................................................1803Gerardo Di Martino, Antonio Iodice, Daniele Riccio, Giuseppe Ruello

Ambient Vibration Testing of Bridges by non-Contact microwave interferometer................................1809Gaetano De Pasquale, Giulia Bernardini, Pier Paolo Ricci, Carmelo Gentile

MLE in Presence of Equality and Inequality Non-linear Constraints for the Ballistic Target Problem..............................................................................................................................................1815

A. Benavoli, A. Farina, L. Ortenzi

Multiple Moving Targets Real-Time Detection in Single-Channel SAR Using Median Filter...............1821Chongyi, Fan, Xiaotao Huang, Liang Wang, Wenge Chang

Potential Technological Breakthroughs for Phased Array Antennas.......................................................1827Jean Chazelas, Afshin Ziaei, Daniel Dolfi, Thomas Merlet

On the Implementation of Optimal Receivers for LFM Signals using Fractional Fourier Transform ......................................................................................................................................................1833

Cagatay Candan

HRR Profile Imaging of Fast Moving Target Based on Multiple Radars Using Wide-band LFM Signals...................................................................................................................................................1837

Fulai Liang, Xiaotao Huang, Xiangyang Li, Qian Song

Clutter Forecast – a Synthesis of Mesoscale Numerical Weather Prediction and Empirical Site Specific Radar Clutter Models .............................................................................................................1842

George LeFurjah, Robert Marshall, Timothy S. Casey, Tracy Haack, Donald de Forest Boyer

EMI Repair in Pulse Doppler Radar ...........................................................................................................1848Vilhelm Gregers-Hansen, Mai T. Ngo

Multi-target Signal Processing in FMCW Radar System with Antenna Array ......................................1854Kai-Wen Cheng, Hsuan-Jung Su

ASSYST: Avatar baSed SYStem mainTenance .........................................................................................1859Andrea F. Abate, Vincenzo Loia, Michele Nappi, Stefano Ricciardi, Enrico Boccola

Adaptive Beamforming Using Fast Low-rank Covariance Matrix Approximations ..............................1865Daniel N. Spendley, Patrick J. Wolfe

Dual-Baseline SAR Interferometry from Correlated Phase Signals.........................................................1870Mario Lucido, Federica Meglio, Vito Pascazio, Gilda Schirinzi

ECM Counteracting SLB: Analysis and Effectiveness Evaluation...........................................................1876G. Foglia, D. Marcantoni, F. Trotta§, A. De Maio

RCS of Human Being Physiological Movements in the 1-10GHz Bandwidth: Theory, Simulation and Measurements.....................................................................................................................1882

G. De Pasquale, A. Sarri, C. Bonopera L. Fiori

AESA Upgrade Option For Eurofighter CAPTOR Radar........................................................................1888M. Barclay, U. Pietzschmann, G. Gonzalez, P. Tellini

Compressed Sensing Radar..........................................................................................................................1893Matthew Herman, Thomas Strohmer

Simulator for Velocity Gate Pull-Off Electronic Countermeasure Techniques ......................................1899James D. Townsend, Michael A. Saville, Seng M. Hongy, Richard K. Martin

Polarization Measurement Results for Wideband Multi-target RADAR Using Five-port Receivers ........................................................................................................................................................1905

Sofia Martinez Lopez, A. Judson Braga, Bernard Huyart, J.C.Cousin

Millimeter-Wave Phased-Array Antennas..................................................................................................1910Enzo Carpentieri, Ugo F. D’Elia, Emilio De Stefano, Lucia Di Guida, Roberto Vitiello

A MAP Estimator for Target Position Estimation in High Resolution Radars .......................................1915Alper Yildirim, Murat Efe

Detection of Snow Clutter in ATC Ground Radar.....................................................................................1920Laura Pierucci,Leonardo Bocchi, Giuseppe Anania, Dionisio Acciai

Modeling of a Strike Formation with Coherent Self-protection Jammers...............................................1925Soner Özer, Michael A Saville, Peter J. Collins, Andrew J. Terzuoli, Richard K. Martin

Using Genetic Algorithms for Radar Waveform........................................................................................1931Christopher T. Capraro, Ivan Bradaric, Gerard T. Capraro, Tsu Kong Lue

Hidden Markov Models for Multi-perspective Radar Target Recognition .............................................1937Jingjing Cui, Jon Gudnason, Mike Brookes

Sensor Placement for Improved Target Resolution in Distributed Radar Systems ................................1942Ivan Bradaric, Gerard T. Capraro, Michael C. Wicks

A Reduced Order Jammer Cancellation Scheme Based on Double Adaptivity ......................................1948M. Sedehi, F. Colone, D. Cristallini, P. Lombardo

Orthogonal Pulse Compression Code Design for Waveform Diversity in Multistatic Radar Systems ...........................................................................................................................................................1954

Namyoon Lee, Joohwan Chun

Wideband adaptive antenna nulling schemes for Synthetic Aperture Radar..........................................1960Marta Bucciarelli, Matteo Sedehi, Pierfrancesco Lombardo

Final Results of the Efficient TerraSAR-X Calibration Method ..............................................................1966M. Schwerdt, B. Brautigam, M. Bachmann, B. Doring, Dirk Schrank, Jaime Hueso Gonzalez

Passive Radar in the High Frequency Band ...............................................................................................1972Giuseppe Fabrizio, Fabiola Colone, Pierfrancesco Lombardo, Alfonso Farina

Forest SAR Tomography: a Covariance Matching Approach..................................................................1978S. Tebaldini

Performance Analysis of a Multi-Frequency FM Based Passive Bistatic Radar.....................................1984Carlo Bongioanni, Fabiola Colone, Pierfrancesco Lombardo

A Wide Swath, Full Polarimetric, L band spaceborne SAR......................................................................1990D. D’Aria, D. Giudici, A. Monti Guarnieri, P. Rizzoli, J. Medina

A Comparison of the Target Tracking in Marine Navigational Radars by Means of GRNN Filter and Numerical Filter ..........................................................................................................................1994

A. Stateczny, W. Kazimierski

Air-Cooled, Active Transmit/Receive Panel Array ....................................................................................1998Angelo Puzella, Roberto Alm

Joint Adaptive Waveform Design and Direction-of-arrival Tracking .....................................................2004Oshri Naparstek, Amir Leshem

Airborne Ku-band Polarimetric Radar Remote Sensing of Terrestrial Snow Cover .............................2010Simon Yueh, Donald Cline, Kelly Elder

Preliminary Performance Analysis and Design for a Distributed Pband Synthetic Aperture Radar..............................................................................................................................................................2016

Giovanni Alberti, Giancarmine Fasano, Marco D’Errico, Stefano Cesare, Gianfranco Sechi, Mario Cosmo, Roberto Formaro, Quirino Rioli

X-band High Range Resolution Radar Measurements of Sea Surface Forward Scatter at Low Grazing Angles......................................................................................................................................2022

Johan C. Smit, Jacques E. Cilliers, C. J. Baker, Johan J. Hanekom

Amplitude/Phase Approach for Target Velocity Estimation in AT-InSAR Systems ..............................2026A. Budillon, V. Pascazio, G. Schirinzi

Robust Target Localization With Multiple Sensors Using Time Difference of Arrivals ........................2031Kehu Yangy, Zhi-Quan Luo

An Effective Model for the Synthesis of Simple Monopulse Array Antennas Via Image Elements .........................................................................................................................................................2037

Giuseppe Colangelo, Tommaso Isernia

Ant Colony Optimization Heuristic for the Multidimensional Assignment Problem in Target Tracking ............................................................................................................................................2043

Ali Onder Bozdogan, Murat Efe

CloudSat’s Cloud Profiling Radar after 1 year in orbit ............................................................................2049Eastwood Im, Simone Tanelli, Stephen L. Durden

Spaceborne Doppler Radars for Atmospheric Dynamics and Energy Budget Studies...........................2053Simone Tanelli, Eastwood Im, Stephen L. Durden, Dino Giuli, Luca Facheris

Phaseless Antenna Diagnostics by Propagation Diversity Via a Slab.......................................................2059R. Pierri, A. Buonanno, F. Soldovieri, G. Leone

Measurements of Phased Array Antenna Fields in Situ: a Few Key Aspects ..........................................2064Jean-jacques Nicolas

Adaptive LFM Waveform Diversity............................................................................................................2070Michael Picciolo, Jacob D. Griesbach, Karl Gerlach

Scenario based RCS statistics of complex ground......................................................................................2076S. Papadopoulos, B. Mulgrew

Some Preliminary Experiments with Distribution-independent EVT-CFAR Based on Recorded Radar Data ...................................................................................................................................2081

Micha- Piotrkowski

Synthesis of Sub-arrayed Monopulse Planar Arrays by Means of an Innovative Matching Method ...........................................................................................................................................................2087

L. Manica, P. Rocca, A. Massa

Multi-frame Sequential Procedures in Early Warning Surveillance Radar Systems .............................2092Emanuele Grossi, Marco Lops

Auxiliary-vector Detection on Measured Radar Data ...............................................................................2098George N. Karystinos, Dimitris A. Pados, Stella N. Batalama, John D. Matyjas

Application of Time-Frequency Analysis and Kalman Filter to Range Estimation of Targets in Enclosed Structures ....................................................................................................................2103

Yimin Zhang, Moeness G. Amin, Fauzia Ahmad

On The Design of Vehicle Trajectories for High Quality Multistatic SAR Images .................................2107Jonathan D. Coker, Ahmed H. Tewfik

Low SNR Radar Signal Detection Using the Continuous Wavelet Transform (CWT) and a Morlet Wavelet ..............................................................................................................................................2113

John E. Ball, Alan Tolley

Aperture Weighting for Maximum Contrast of SAR Imagery .................................................................2119Jesse Kolman

Distributed Collaborative Adaptive Radar Network: Preliminary Results from the CASA IP1 Testbed ....................................................................................................................................................2125

V. Chandrasekar, Dave McLaughlin, Jerry Brotzge, Michael Zink, Brenda Philips, Yanting Wang

Non-coherent Cooperative Jammer for Multi-platform Applications .....................................................2130Seng Hong, Mark Longbrake, Michael Saville, Zhiqiang Wu

Design and Implementation of a Multi-purpose Radar Controller using open-source tools..................2136Ryan Sealy, Julio Urbina, Michael P. Sulzery, Nestor Apontey, Sixto Gonzalez

Information-Theoretic Matched Waveform in Signal Dependent Interference ......................................2140Ric Romero, Nathan A. Goodman

Portable Temperate Ice Depth Sounder Radar (TIDSoR) ........................................................................2146Victor A. Jara, Kevin M. Player, Deebu Abi, Fernando Rodriguez-Morales, Sivaprasad Gogineni, Ayyangar R. Harish, Carl Leuschen

IDRA, IRCTR Drizzle Radar: First Results ...............................................................................................2151J. Figueras i Ventura, H. W. J. Russchenberg

High Power Ultra Wideband Radar Exotic Material Response ...............................................................2157Rick L. Moore, John Meadors, Robert Rice

Moving Target Emulators for Ultra Wide Band Signals: Electrically Modulated Fragmented Surfaces ....................................................................................................................................2163

Rick L. Moore, Paul Friederich, Robert Rice

Multipath Spread-Doppler Clutter Mitigation for Over-the-Horizon Radar..........................................2169Jeffrey Krolik, Vito Mecca, Oguz Kazanci, Igal Bilik

Application of Adaptive Beamforming Techniques to HF Radar.............................................................2174Peter Vouras, Brian Freburger

Multi-feature Based Automatic Recognition of Ship Targets in ISAR Images .......................................2180Debora Pastina, Chiara Spina

Recent Progress in Space-borne Radar Technology and Inversion Techniques for Radar Measurements................................................................................................................................................2186

Peter Edenhofer

Implementing SAR Image Processing Using Backprojection on the Cell Broadband Engine ...............2188William Lundgren, Uttam Majumder

Use of Numerical ILDC in RCS Design Optimization Loop .....................................................................2194Riccardo Cioni, Stefano Sensani, Giacomo de Mauro, Antonio Sarri

PodSAR: A Versatile Real-time SAR GMTI Surveillance and Targeting System ..................................2200M. Jahangir, D Coe, A. P Blake, P. G Kealey, C. P Moate

Study of the Classification Task Into an Integrated Multisensor System for Maritime Border Control ..............................................................................................................................................2206

S. Giompapa, A. Farina, F. Gini, A. Graziano, R. Croci, R. Di Stefano

Recent Progress in Passive Coherent Location (PCL) Concepts and Technique in France Using DAB Or FM Broadcasters .................................................................................................................2212

Dominique Poullin, Marc Flécheux

New Concepts for MRFS Evolutionary Trends. the M-AESA Program: a Joint IT-SE Capability Driven Approach ........................................................................................................................2217

V. Carulli, R. Nordenberg, A. Fredlund, A. Ouacha

Data Association Algorithm in Multiradar System....................................................................................2225Chr. Kabakchiev, I. Garvanov, L. Doukovska, V. Kyovtorov, H. Rohling

Performance of Low-rank STAP detectors.................................................................................................2229Laura Anitori, Rajan Srinivasan, Muralidhar Rangaswamy

Classification of landmines using GPR .......................................................................................................2235David J Daniels, Paul Curtis, Oliver Lockwood

New Directions in Bistatic Radar.................................................................................................................2241H. D. Griffiths

Radar: Reflections and Speculations ...........................................................................................................2247Merrill Skolnik

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