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Conference Guide
RadarConf 2016
2016 IEEE Radar Conference (RadarConf)
May 2-6, 2016 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Welcome Message from General Chair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Welcome Message from Technical Program Chair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Welcome Message from AESS RSP Chair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Welcome Message from Philadelphias Mayor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Organizing Committee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Technical Review Committee Members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Session Chairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Radar Systems Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Plenary Speakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Banquet Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 AESS Awards and Fellows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Corporate Supporters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Exhibitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Student Paper Competition Finalists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Women in Radar Networking and Mentoring Event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30 Tutorials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Advertisements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Conference Agenda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Technical Program Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Hotel Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
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WELCOME FROM THE GENERAL CHAIR
Joseph G. Teti, Jr.
General Chair, 2016 IEEE Radar Conference
It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to the historic city of Philadelphia to participate in the
2016 IEEE Radar Conference. This years conference continues the success of past conferences
with an excellent technical program with contributions from the national and international
community. The technical program opens with a plenary session of invited speakers that will
feature the Philadelphia regions pioneering and ongoing contributions to the art of radar. The
balance of the program is also rich in technical content and well organized in thematic parallel
and poster sessions consistent with our conference theme Enabling Technologies for Advances in
Radar. In addition, our technical program continues with the important tradition of a student
poster paper competition that includes winner recognition during Thursdays lunch program. In
summary, this years program will both inform on recent accomplishments, and stimulate
creative thinking for future advances in our field.
Our technical program is complimented nicely with a strong set of tutorials that range from
introductory to advanced topics. We hope you take advantage of this important learning
opportunity to strengthen your understanding of radar fundamentals or expand the breadth of
your knowledge in advanced and emerging topics. The technical program and scope of the
tutorials would have made Philadelphias most prominent scholar, Benjamin Franklin, very
proud.
Social activities at this years conference include a Women in Radar Networking Lunch on
Tuesday, an Exhibitor Reception Tuesday evening, and our Banquet Wednesday evening. The
Banquet program begins with a reception featuring live entertainment from the uniquely
Philadelphian Fralinger String Band, followed by dinner, the award ceremony and keynote
address. This years award ceremony features the presentation of the first Robert T. Hill Award
for the best Ph.D. Dissertation. Our banquet program concludes with a keynote address from Dr.
Vijay Kumar, Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of
Pennsylvania. Dr. Kumars research in robotics is world renowned, and his talk entitled Flying
Robots: Beyond UAVs will be both entertaining and educational.
Apart from the usual conference activities, our conference committee has prepared a Guest
Program that enables participants to experience the historical and cultural attractions that are
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both world class and unique to the city of Philadelphia. We also hope you consider either
arriving early or extending your stay to further enjoy the charm of the city, and its many cultural
and culinary offerings.
This years conference would not have been possible without the sponsorship of the IEEE AESS
and the Philadelphia section of the IEEE, dedicated work of the organizing committee,
enthusiastic participation from exhibitors, and generous support from industry. It particular, we
are very grateful to have received premier corporate support from Lockheed Martin in
neighboring Moorestown, NJ. Their dedication to supporting the field of radar and local radar
community is exemplary. Thank you one and all.
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WELCOME FROM THE TECHNICAL PROGRAM CHAIR
David J. Farina
Technical Program Chair, 2016 IEEE Radar Conference
On behalf of the technical program committee members, I would like to express my welcome to
Philadelphia and our 2016 IEEE Radar Conference. We hope you enjoy all aspects of it. We
appreciate the energy that the international radar community has shown for this conference. We
had over 500 papers submitted, and 115 technical program reviewers. We accepted 181 oral
papers and 100 poster papers. This all led to a high-quality program that we feel you will truly
appreciate. The very dedicated volunteer reviewers were chosen for their breadth and expertise
in Radar and it allowed us to give each paper a careful consideration with multiple reviews. I
want to thank those that suggested special sessions; the conference has 12 special sessions and a
total of 38 parallel sessions that cover a wide variety of systems, processing, hardware and
algorithms. I also want to thank the session co-chairs for accepting that role and giving our
conference a personal feel.
The students represent our future. This year 20 student papers are being presented in the oral
format. All 93 accepted student papers were also part of a student contest, led by James Onorato,
open to all papers whose primary author is an active full-time student. The contest is to
encourage graduate students to pursue radar and related technologies. The top 3 winners will be
recognized at the conference and receive a cash award. In addition, the top 10 receive a radar
textbook. We also gratefully acknowledge the generous financial support of the U.S. National
Science Foundation, which sponsored our student travel grants.
We want to especially thank the paper authors for their contributions to this conference and the
advancement of radar. Your papers are the cornerstone of the conference.
Again, Welcome to Philadelphia and enjoy meeting the other thought leaders in radar.
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WELCOME FROM THE AESS RSP CHAIR
Maria Sabrina Greco
AESS RSP Chair
Dear members of the Radar Systems Panel, AESS members, dear attendees,
Its my pleasure to welcome you to the 2016 AESS Radar Conference, this year held again in the
beautiful Philly, after many years.
As all the conference volunteers know, organizing a big conference is never an easy job and even
though sometimes everything seems to go wrong, fortunately it never happens, thanks to the
dedication, the patience and the work of the organizers. At the end, magically, every piece of the
puzzle goes to the right place in the big picture.
So, here we are, with an excellent technical program, 23 tutorials on Monday and Friday, 38 oral
and poster sessions and a very interesting guest tour program.
I wish you to enjoy the conference and, if you have some spare time, the Spring in Philadelphia.
All the best.
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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
General Chair Dr. Joseph G. Teti, Jr., Lambda Science, Inc.
Deputy General Chair Mr. Allan Croly, Lockheed Martin MST
Technical Program Chair Dr. David J. Farina, Lockheed Martin MST
Senior Conference Advisor Dr. John K. Smith, Consultant
Local Arrangements Chair Mr. Thomas L. Fagan, TLF Associates
Exhibits & Corporate Support Chair Mr. Joseph J. Schanne, Lambda Science, Inc.
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Publications Chair Dr. Fauzia Ahmad, Villanova University
Student Poster Competition Chair Mr. James Onorato, Telephonics Corporation
Tutorials Chair Dr. Marshall Greenspan, Consultant
Registration Chair Mr. Michael A. Mayor, Consultant
Electronic Services Co-Chair Mr. Patrick Cahill, Lambda Science, Inc.
Electronic Services Co-Chair Mr. Justin M. Buckley, Lambda Science, Inc.
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Finance Chair Mr. Robert L. Johnston, Lockheed Martin SSC
IEEE Philadelphia Section Liaison Mr. I. Marvin Weilerstein, Consultant
Publicity Chair Mr. Peter M. Silverberg, Consultant
Conference Coordinator Ms. Linda L. Marciano, Lockheed Martin
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TECHNICAL REVIEW COMMITTEE MEMBERS
The Technical Program Chair wishes to thank all of the reviewers for their support.
Raviraj Adve Scott Goldstein S. Unnikrishna Pillai
Fauzia Ahmad Maria Greco Leigh Powis
Oliver Allen Hugh Griffiths Daniel Rabideau
Moeness Amin Joseph Guerci Muralidhar Rangaswamy
Richard Anderson Ali Cafer Gurbuz Brian Rigling
Stuart Anderson Sevgi Gurbuz Frank Robey
Greg Arlow Alexander Haimovich Hermann Rohling
Augusto Aubry Aboulnasr Hassanien Paul Rosen
Richard Bamler Randy Haupt Joseph Schanne
Yaakov Bar-Shalom Brett Haywood Dan Scholnik
Kristine Bell Scott Hensley Daniel Sego
Mark Bell Jeffrey Herd Don Sinnott
Jamie Bergin Braham Himed Mark Sletten
Fabrizio Berizzi Bruce Hudson John Smith
Patrick Bidigare Michael Inggs Daniele Staglian
David Blacknell Paul Kalata Chris Teixeira
Daniel Bliss Joshua Kantor Joseph Teti
Ingar Blosfelds Krzysztof Kulpa Daniel Thomas
Rick Blum Heiner Kuschel Gerard Titi
Shannon Blunt Alex Lackpour Russell Vela
Kevin Buckley Marc Lesturgie Keith Ward
Patrick Cahill Nadav Levanon Simon Watts
Gerard Capraro Hongbin Li Matthias Wei
Vincenzo Carotenuto Michael Luddy Michael Wicks Elaine Chapin Anthony Martone Peter Willet
Victor Chen Marco Martorella Xiaopeng Yang
Margaret Cheney Michael Mayor Yeo-Sun Yoon
Mikhail Cherniakov Robert McMillan David Zasada
Bill Correll William Melvin Yimin Zhang
Scott Coutts John Milan
Guolong Cui Eric Mokole
Mark Davis Alberto Moreira
James Day Ram Narayanan
Antonio De Maio Arye Nehorai Armin Doerry Xavier Neyt
Alfonso Farina Les Novak
David Farina Dave Ott
Gordon Frazer Luca Pallotta
Fulvio Gini Jenny Palmer
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SESSION CHAIRS
The Technical Program Chair wishes to thank all of the Session Chairs for their support.
Yuri Abramovich, WR Systems Joshua Kantor, MIT Lincoln Lab Raviraj Adve, University of Toronto Ali Khenchaf, ENSTA Bretagne Moeness Amin, Villanova University Steve Kogon, MIT Lincoln Lab Laura Anitori, TNO Heiner Kuschel, Fraunhofer FHR Igal Bilik, General Motors Alex Lackpour, Lockheed Martin Kristine Bell, Metron Inc. Pierfrancesco Lombardo, University of Rome Jamie Bergin, ISL Inc. Anthony Martone, US ARL Daniel Bliss, Arizona State University Marco Martorella, University of Pisa Ingar Blosfelds, Lockheed Martin William Melvin, GTRI Rick Blum, Lehigh University Justin Melcalf, US AFRL Shannon Blunt, University of Kansas John Milan, Retired Eli Brookner, Raytheon (Retired) Ram Narayanan, The Penn State University John Chapin, DARPA Jerry Nespor, Lockheed Martin Victor Chen, US NRL (Retired) Lam Nguyen, US ARL Margaret Cheney, Colorado State University Dave Ott, Lockheed Martin Mikhail Cherniakov, University of Birmingham Audrey Paulus, Georgia Tech James Day, Lockheed Martin Richard Pedersen, Lockheed Martin Mark Davis, Medavis Consulting Michael Picciolo, ENSCO Inc. Antonio De Maio, University of Naples S. Unnikrishna Pillai, New York University Armin Doerry, Sandia National Labs Muralidhar Rangaswamy, US AFRL Alfonso Farina, SELEX (Retired) Brian Rigling, Wright State University Barry Fell, DARPA Frank Robey, MIT Lincoln Lab Gordon Frazer, DST Group Paul Rosen, Jet Propulsion Lab Fulvio Gini, University of Pisa Dan Scholnik, US NRL Scott Goldstein, ENSCO Inc. Daniel Sego, Boeing Maria Greco, University of Pisa David Tahmoush, US ARL Marshall Greenspan, Northrop Grumman (Retired) Daniel Thomas, SRC Inc. Hugh Griffiths, University College London Trac Tran, Johns Hopkins University Nathan Goodman, University of Oklahoma Gerard Titi, Systems & Technology Research Mark Govoni, US Army Simon Watts, SW Research Consultancy Joseph Guerci, ISL Inc. Michael Wicks, University of Dayton Alexander Haimovich, NJIT Peter Willet, University of Connecticut Aboulnasr Hassanien, Villanova University David Zasada, The MITRE Corporation Braham Himed, US AFRL Evan Zaugg, ARTEMIS Inc. Paul Kalata, Drexel University Yimin Zhang, Temple University
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RADAR SYSTEMS PANEL
Raviraj Adve, Canada Krzysztof Kulpa, Poland
Fauzia Ahmad, USA Heiner Kuschel, Germany
Chris J. Baker, UK Marc Lesturgie, France
Dan Bliss, USA Pierfrancesco Lombardo, Italy
Shannon Blunt, USA Teng Long, China
Alexander Charlish, Germany William L. Melvin, USA
Mark E. Davis, USA Eric L. Mokole, USA
James K. Day, USA Jennifer Palmer, USA
Antonio De Maio, Italy Michael Picciolo, USA
Giuseppe A. Fabrizio, Australia Dan Rabideau, USA
Alfonso Farina, Italy Muralidhar Rangaswamy, USA
Gordon J. Frazer, Australia Brian Rigling, USA
Fulvio Gini, Italy Herman Rohling, Germany
J. Scott Goldstein, USA Dan Sego, USA
Nathan Goodman, USA Joseph G. Teti, Jr., USA
Maria Sabrina Greco, Italy Dan Thomas, USA
Hugh Griffiths, UK Simon Watts, UK
Joseph R. Guerci, USA Michael C. Wicks, USA
Braham Himed, USA Xiopeng Yang, China
Michael Inggs, South Africa
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PLENARY SPEAKERS
Dr. John K. Smith
Brotherly Love for Radar
Abstract: Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love. We are gathered in a city with an important
role in the history of the USA, and this talk will discuss some of the history of radar development
which was based in local universities, local industry and local government labs. Radar engineers
working in the Delaware Valley continue a tradition of creating new technologies and advancing
radar science. This talk, and the speakers following me, will also highlight some of the current
radar work in this locale. Topics include ship-based radars such as Aegis, long range tracking
radars and instrumentation radars, airborne radars for AEW, ASW, and fire control, EW, radio
cameras, and processing techniques. There is a rich history to draw from, going back to the radar
detection of ships in 1934. The talk will also discuss some of the local radar pioneers in radar,
and identify the large number of universities which provides this area with such a great capacity
for interdisciplinary research and development.
Biography: Dr. Smith has extensive experience and expertise in multi-disciplinary/multi-sensor
systems engineering, with most activity in radar R&D. During his career, he worked on large and
small radars at frequencies from UHF to mm-wave for/with DARPA, Navy, Air Force, and
Army as well as other government and commercial agencies and enterprises. He now works as a
consultant, primarily to DoD agencies, and has served on scientific advisory boards and major
project review teams.
Prior to working as an independent consultant, he was Principal Staff at the JHU Applied Physics
Lab. While there he was assigned to DARPA as a Program Manager in both the Special Projects
Office and the Sensor Technology Office. He led projects in cruise missile defense and novel
signal processing, device and antenna technology. He received an OSD Award for Outstanding
Achievement in 1998 and the 1999 DARPA Program Manager of the Year Award. Before
working at DARPA he was the Microwave Technology Division Manager at the Naval Air
Warfare Center in Warminster, PA. The Division developed new concepts for airborne radar and
EW with involvement in all Navy aircraft, surveillance and tactical. In 1987 he received the
ONR Exploratory Development Top Accomplishment Award.
Dr. Smith graduated with a BSEE degree from the University of Pennsylvania summa cum
laude, and with a PhD in Electronics from Cambridge University. He is a Fellow of Military
Sensing Symposia, a Senior Member of the IEEE, and an emeritus member of the AESS Radar
Systems Panel, having been its Chair in 1987-89. He was General Chair of the 2004 IEEE Radar
Conference in Philadelphia.
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PLENARY SPEAKERS
Dr. Nader Engheta
Tailoring Scattering Signatures with Metamaterials
Abstract: Recent years have witnessed unprecedented development in materials science and
engineering, providing possibilities for manipulating electromagnetic fields and waves towards
desired goals and applications. Specially engineered materials, known as metamaterials, have
become one of the active topics of research in the EM, microwave and optics communities.
Ability to tailor interaction of EM signals at the subwavelength scale provides powerful tools for
tailoring scattering signatures and manipulating radar cross sections of targets of interest. As an
example, the metamaterial cloaking has become one of the topics of growing research interest. In
this talk, I will give an overview of various aspects of electromagnetic metamaterials and
metastructures, will present and discuss some of the exciting possibilities offered by these
platforms, and will forecast future directions and possibilities for radar cross section engineering.
Biography: Dr. Engheta is the H. Nedwill Ramsey Professor at the University of Pennsylvania
in Philadelphia, with affiliations in the Departments of Electrical and Systems Engineering,
Materials Science and Engineering, Physics and Astronomy, and Bioengineering. He received
his B.S. degree from the University of Tehran, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Caltech.
He has received several awards for his research including the 2015 Gold Medal from SPIE
(International Society for Optics and Photonics), the 2015 National Security Science and
Engineering Faculty Fellowship (NSSEFF) Award from US DoD, the 2015 IEEE Antennas and
Propagation Society Distinguished Achievement Award, the 2014 Balthasar van der Pol Gold
Medal from the International Union of Radio Science, the 2013 Inaugural SINA Award in
Engineering, the 2013 Benjamin Franklin Key Award, the 2012 IEEE Electromagnetics Award,
the 2008 George H. Heilmeier Award for Excellence in Research, the Fulbright Naples Chair
Award, NSF Presidential Young Investigator award, the UPS Foundation Distinguished Educator
term Chair, 2006 Scientific American Magazine 50 Leaders in Science and Technology,
Guggenheim Fellowship, and IEEE Third Millennium Medal. He is a Fellow of IEEE, American
Physical Society (APS), Optical Society of America (OSA), Materials Research Society (MRS),
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and SPIE.
His current research activities span a broad range of areas including metamaterials,
nanophotoncis, nano-scale optics, graphene optics, imaging and sensing inspired by eyes of
animal species, optical nanoengineering, microwave and optical antennas, and engineering and
physics of fields and waves. He has co-edited (with R. W. Ziolkowski) the book entitled
Metamaterials: Physics and Engineering Explorations by Wiley-IEEE Press, 2006. He was the
Chair of the Gordon Research Conference on Plasmonics in June 2012.
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PLENARY SPEAKERS
Dr. Moeness Amin
A Decade of Through Wall Radar Imaging
Abstract: This talk discusses the advances made in through-the-wall radar imaging over the last
decade. It states the different objectives of research and development efforts in this area, and
describes the main challenges specific to urban radar in terms of clutter, target ghosting, and
multipath. We summarize effective approaches for wall clutter mitigation and multipath
suppression and exploitation. The talk illustrates the role of Doppler, microDoppler, and change
detection in indoor moving target detection and localization. It includes both distributed and co-
located system configurations. We show how compressive sensing and sparse reconstruction
techniques can be employed to enhance behind the wall target imaging and to relax constraints
traditionally imposed on data sampling and acquisition. We describe some of the hand-held and
vehicle mounted systems available for through wall radar imaging, delineate their properties and
comment on their performance.
Biography: Dr. Amin is the Director of the Center for Advanced Communications, Villanova
University, Pennsylvania, USA. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers; Fellow of the International Society of Optical Engineering; Fellow of the Institute of
Engineering and Technology; and Fellow of the European Association for Signal Processing. Dr.
Amin is a Recipient of the 2014 IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Achievement Award;
Recipient of the 2009 Individual Technical Achievement Award from the European Association
for Signal Processing; Recipient of the IEEE Warren D White Award for Excellence in Radar
Engineering; Recipient of the IEEE Third Millennium Medal; Recipient of the 2010 NATO
Scientific Achievement Award; Recipient of the 2010 Chief of Naval Research Challenge
Award; Recipient of Villanova University Outstanding Faculty Research Award, 1997; and the
Recipient of the IEEE Philadelphia Section Award, 1997. He was a Distinguished Lecturer of the
IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2003-2004, and is currently the Chair of the Electrical Cluster
of the Franklin Institute Committee on Science and the Arts. Dr. Amin has over 700 journal and
conference publications in signal processing theory and applications. He co-authored 18 book
chapters and is the Editor of the two books Through the Wall Radar Imaging and
Compressive Sensing for Urban Radar, published by CRC Press in 2011 and 2014,
respectively.
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PLENARY SPEAKERS
Dr. Alexander M. Haimovich
From Random Arrays to Compressive Sensing
Abstract: The mathematical theory of random arrays, large antenna arrays populated sparsely
with randomly placed elements, goes back to the 1960's. The field flourished in the 1970's and
1980's thanks to the pioneering work of Bernard Steinberg and others at the University of
Pennsylvania, who developed algorithms and calibration methods and even built the first random
arrays. Classical random array literature teaches that as the number of sensors increases, the
radiation pattern of a random array converges to its average, and it is equal to the pattern of a
filled array with the same aperture. However, two fundamental questions were left open: how
many sensors are needed for localization as a function of the array aperture and the number of
targets, and under what conditions specific algorithms have a high probability of success.
Emerging in the mid 2000's, compressive sensing has quickly evolved into a very hot research
topic covering many fields. In this talk, we will show how compressive sensing, the theory of
recovery of information from undersampled data, may be applied to obtain answers to open
questions on sparse, random arrays. The talk will discuss target detection and false alarms in the
context of compressive sensing, and present algorithms that are specifically designed to meet
radar requirements as well as feature reduced complexity offering a path to real-time, practical
implementation.
Biography: Dr. Haimovich received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the
TechnionIsrael Institute of Technology in 1977, the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from
Drexel University in 1983, and the Ph.D. degree in systems engineering from the University of
Pennsylvania in 1989. From 1983 to 1990, he was a design engineer and staff consultant at AEL
Industries. He served as Chief Scientist of JJM Systems from 1990 until 1992. Since 1992 he has
been on the faculty at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, where he currently serves as the
Ying Wu Chair and Distinguished Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He also
serves as the Director of the Elisha Bar-Ness Center for Wireless Communications Research. He
is an author on some of the seminal papers on MIMO radar. His current research interest include
MIMO radar, active and passive localization, signal intelligence, sensor networks and wireless
networks.
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PLENARY SPEAKERS
Mr. Steven E. Bruce
Space Fence
Abstract: Space is no longer a vast, empty void. Unprecedented quantities of new satellites,
derelict satellites, and debris litter the skies, posing an imminent threat to Americas space assets.
The Space Fence System is a ground-based system of S-band radars designed to greatly enhance
the Air Force Space Surveillance Network. Space Fence provides unprecedented sensitivity,
coverage and tracking accuracy, and contributes to key mission threads with the ability to detect,
track and catalog small objects in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) and
Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO). Space Fence capabilities will revolutionize space situational
awareness. Space Fence includes up to two minimally-manned radar sites and the Space Fence
Operations Center. Each radar site features a design with closely-spaced, but separate, Transmit
and Receive Arrays that are mission-optimized for high availability and low lifetime support
costs, including prime power. The radar architecture is based on Digital Beamforming. This
capability permits tremendous user-defined flexibility to customize volume surveillance and
track sectors instantaneously without impacting routine surveillance functions.
Space Fence offers assured surveillance coverage for improved custody and features the
capability to develop long arc tracks for accurate orbit determination, while simultaneously
maintaining a persistent surveillance volume. Space Fence allows operators to reconstruct recent
eventssuch as collisions or satellite break-upsand accurately predict future events. For high-
interest objects, a micro fence can be electronically constructed to gather more track data,
focusing radar resources specifically on that object, providing more timely and accurate
information. The Space Fence System is net-centric and will seamlessly integrate into the
existing Space Surveillance Network, providing services to external userssuch as the Joint
Space Operations Center (JSpOC)and coordinating handoffs to other SSN sites. Space Fence
is a robust, flexible, advanced end-to-end system that will meet the warfighters operational
needs and revolutionize Space Situational Awareness.
Biography: Mr. Bruce is Vice President, Advanced Systems, Integrated Warfare Systems &
Sensors, for Lockheed Martin Corporation. In this capacity, he is responsible for leading the
Corporations Space Surveillance radar activities, including Space Fence, the advanced
electronic technology programs with DARPA and other Department of Defense laboratories, and
our Synthetic Aperture Radar and Electronic Warfare programs. Previously, Mr. Bruce was Vice
President, Business Development, for Lockheed Martin Corporations Radar Systems. In that
role, he was responsible for all aspects of domestic and international business development
activities, including serving as Capture Manager for a major U.S. Army Program, from April
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2006 to September 2006 that resulted in capturing the counter-fire radar (TPQ-53) franchise.
Throughout his career, Mr. Bruce has led several critical initiatives for Lockheed Martin
Corporation, including capture of the Romanian Gap Filler Radar and Space Fence programs and
served as the Mission Systems and Sensors (MS2) Business Development Lead from October
2009 to May 2010.
Prior to joining Lockheed Martin, Mr. Bruce was Vice President and Center Director, System
Technology Center for Syracuse Research Corporation in North Syracuse, N.Y from 2002-2006.
He was responsible for all aspects of the company with regards to profit/loss, budgets, and
strategic and annual operating plans, including Programs, Engineering, Business Development
and other functional organizations to successfully meet rate targets and increase revenues each
year, making SRC one of the fastest growing defense companies in Central New York.
Mr. Bruce holds a bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from Michigan Technological
University and a masters degree in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University. Mr. Bruce
has served on the board of Syracuse Symphony Orchestra and the Syracuse Museum of Science
and Technology.
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BANQUET KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Dr. Vijay Kumar
Flying Robots: Beyond UAVs
Abstract: Flying robots can operate in three-dimensional, indoor and outdoor environments. However, many challenges arise as we scale down the size of the robot, which is necessary for operating in cluttered environments. I will describe recent work in developing small, autonomous robots, and the design and algorithmic challenges in the areas of (a) control and planning, (b) state estimation and mapping, and (c) coordinating large teams of robots. I will also discuss applications to search and rescue, first response and precision farming. Publications and videos are available at kumarrobotics.org. Biography: Dr. Kumar is the Nemirovsky Family Dean of Penn Engineering with appointments in the Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, Computer and Information Science, and Electrical and Systems Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Kumar received his Bachelor of Technology degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and his Ph.D. from The Ohio State University in 1987. He has been on the Faculty in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics with a secondary appointment in the Department of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania since 1987. Dr. Kumar served as the Deputy Dean for Research in the School of Engineering and Applied Science from 2000-2004. He directed the GRASP Laboratory, a multidisciplinary robotics and perception laboratory, from 1998-2004. He was the Chairman of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics from 2005-2008. He served as the Deputy Dean for Education in the School of Engineering and Applied Science from 2008-2012. He then served as the assistant director of robotics and cyber physical systems at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (2012 2013). Dr. Kumar is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (2003), a Fellow of the Institution of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (2005) and a member of the National Academy of Engineering (2013). Dr. Kumars research interests are in robotics, specifically multi-robot systems, and micro aerial vehicles. He has served on the editorial boards of the IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, the ASME Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics and the Springer Tract in Advanced Robotics (STAR).
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He is the recipient of the 1991 National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator award, the 1996 Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching (University of Pennsylvania), the 1997 Freudenstein Award for significant accomplishments in mechanisms and robotics, the 2012 ASME Mechanisms and Robotics Award, the 2012 IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Distinguished Service Award, a 2012 World Technology Network Award, and a 2014 Engelberger Robotics Award. He has won best paper awards at DARS 2002, ICRA 2004, ICRA 2011, RSS 2011, and RSS 2013, and has advised doctoral students who have won Best Student Paper Awards at ICRA 2008, RSS 2009, and DARS 2010. More information about Dr. Kumars research can be found in his TED talks. (http://www.ted.com/speakers/vijay_kumar)
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FRED NATHANSON MEMORIAL RADAR AWARD The Nathanson Young Engineer of the Year is an annual award, in honor of the late Fred Nathanson, sponsored by the IEEE/AES Radar Systems Panel of the Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society. The purpose of this award is to grant international recognition for outstanding contributions to the radar art by young IEEE/AESS members. The goals of the Radar Systems Panel in granting this award are to encourage individual effort and to foster increased participation by developing radar engineers.
The 2016 Fred Nathanson Memorial Radar Award to the Young Engineer of the Year is presented to Dr. Ryan Hersey for contributions to dismount moving target indication and adaptive radar signal processing.
Dr. Ryan Hersey is a Principal Research Engineer and head of the Advanced Processing and Algorithms Branch in the Georgia Tech Research Institutes Sensors and Electromagnetic Applications Laboratory (GTRI/SEAL). At GTRI, he is the project director and principal investigator on multiple programs developing and implementing advanced ISR systems. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Georgia Tech and his M.S. and B.S. degrees in Engineering Science and Mechanics from Penn State University. He specializes in adaptive array processing, simulation, and modeling. Dr. Hersey is highly experienced in the field of adaptive array processing, particularly in the application area
of ground moving target indication (GMTI) through space-time adaptive processing (STAP). He has specific interests in SAR-GMTI processing, dismount detection, coherent change detection, conformal arrays, space-based radar, systems engineering, and real-time processing. He is a senior member of IEEE. He has refereed journal publications on adaptive processing for conformal arrays, and has received several best paper awards at the IEEE Radar Conference and Tri-Service Radar Symposium. He has also developed and taught STAP, GMTI, and AESA short courses offered by Georgia Tech.
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WARREN D. WHITE AWARD The Warren D. White Award for Excellence in Radar Engineering was established by the Warren White family to recognize a radar engineer for the achievement of a major technical advance, or a series of advances over time, in the art of radar engineering. The 2016 Warren D. White Award for Excellence in Radar Engineering is presented to Mr. James Day for contributions towards the development, flight testing, and production of Navy Airborne Early Warning radars.
Mr. James Day is the Technical Director of the Airborne Early Warning Radar business area and Senior Fellow at Lockheed Martin MST in Syracuse, NY, USA. He has been with Lockheed Martin and its heritage companies since 1980. Jim is technically responsible for all the airborne early warning radar programs at LM MST-Syracuse, leading a team of more than 150 people, primarily engineers. His major focus area has been the E-2 Advanced Hawkeye radar system. Jim is a past Chairman of the IEEE AESS Radar System Panel, an IEEE Fellow, and is author of the Chapter titled Airborne MTI Radar in Skolniks 3rd Edition of the Radar Handbook. Jim has also received Lockheed Martins highest award (NOVA award) for
Leadership and was recently elected to the US Navys Hawkeye / Greyhound Hall of Honor.
Mr. Day graduated with a BSEE degree from Michigan State University in 1980 and received his MSEE degree from Syracuse University in 1984.
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ROBERT T. HILL BEST DISSERTATION AWARD The Robert T. Hill Best Dissertation Award is an annual AESS award to recognize candidates that have recently received a Ph.D. degree and have written an outstanding Ph.D. dissertation in the field of interest of the Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society. Its purpose is to grant international recognition for the most outstanding Ph.D. dissertation by an AESS member.
The 2015 Robert T. Hill Award is presented to Dr. Bosung Kang for his Ph.D. Dissertation Robust Covariance Matrix Estimation for Radar Space-Time Adaptive Processing (STAP).
Dr. Bosung Kang received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, in 2005 and 2007, respectively, and a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, in 2015. He is currently a postdoctoral scholar of electrical engineering at the Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. He worked at LG Electronics, Seoul, Korea, as a research engineer, from 2007 to 2011. He developed image and video signal processing algorithms in mobile camera and monitor applications. He was a recipient of the First Place in the Student Paper Competition at the IEEE Radar Conference, Cincinnati, OH, 2014. He is working on radar signal processing including
covariance estimation and waveform design in practical radar applications. His research interests include image/video signal processing, detection and estimation, and radar signal processing, and convex optimization.
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HARRY ROWE MIMNO AWARD The Harry Rowe Mimno Award was established to recognize and foster excellence in clear communication of technical material of widespread interest to AESS members, and to honor the contributions of Dr. Harry Rowe Mimno to the AESS. The award is presented to the authors of the best paper selected from among those published in the IEEE Aerospace & Electronic Systems Magazine. The winners of the 2014 H. Rowe Mimno Award are Prof. Michael Inggs, Dr. Craig Tong, Dr. Roaldge Nadjiasngar, Mr. Gunther Lang, Prof. Amit Mishra, and Dr. Francois Maasdorp for the paper Planning and Design Phases of a Commensal Radar System in the FM Broadcast Band published in the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine in July 2014. Quoting from the nomination and the endorsement letters: The paper represents an excellent example of sequential technical writing from problem statement through to technical execution and result analysis, and more The production of this article is of immense value to the radar community because it shares the benefits of this long process and provides precious guidance on architectures, methods, and directions that can work effectively in the real-world.
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IEEE FELLOWS - AESS CLASS OF 2016 The IEEE Grade of Fellow is conferred by the Board of Directors upon a person with an extraordinary record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest. The total number selected in any one year does not exceed one-tenth of one percent of the total voting Institution membership. Each new Fellow receives a beautifully matted and framed certificate with the name of the Fellow and a brief citation describing the accomplishment, a congratulatory letter from the incoming IEEE president and a gold sterling silver Fellow lapel pin with antique finish.
The 2016 AESS Class of IEEE Fellows includes Dr. Shannon D. Blunt for contributions to radar waveform diversity and design.
Shannon D. Blunt received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Missouri in 1999, 2000, and 2002, respectively. From 2002 to 2005 he was with the Radar Division of the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington, D.C. Since 2005 he has been with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Kansas (KU) where he is currently a Professor and Director of the Radar Systems & Remote Sensing Lab (RSL). In 2008 Prof. Blunt received the AFOSR Young Investigator Award and in 2012 he received the IEEE/AESS Nathanson Memorial Radar Award. He is a member of the AESS Radar Systems Panel where he is currently Chair of the Conferences Committee and the
Nathanson Award Committee. He is an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Aerospace & Electronic Systems and is on the Editorial Board for IET Radar, Sonar & Navigation. He was General Chair of the 2011 IEEE Radar Conference in Kansas City. He was Chair of the NATO SET-179 research task group on Dynamic Waveform Diversity & Design and a member of the NATO SET-182 research task group on Radar Spectrum Engineering & Management and the NATO SET-227 research task group on Cognitive Radar.
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The 2016 AESS Class of IEEE Fellows includes Dr. Giuseppe A. Fabrizio for contributions to adaptive array signal processing in over-the-horizon radar systems.
Giuseppe A. Fabrizio received his B.E. and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Adelaide in South Australia (1992 and 2000). The Ph.D. degree was awarded for contributions in adaptive array signal processing with application to high frequency (HF) radar. Since 1993, Dr. Fabrizio has been with the Australian Defence Science and Technology (DST) Group. From 2005 to 2015, he led the EW and signal processing section of the HF radar branch, where he was responsible for the development and practical implementation of innovative and robust adaptive signal processing techniques to enhance the operational performance of modern over-the-horizon (OTH) radar systems. In 2016, Dr. Fabrizio
was appointed as the Group Leader of Microwave Radar Systems in DST Groups Surveillance and Reconnaissance Branch, where he holds responsibility for all facets of R&D in active and passive phased array radar systems for maritime/land applications and providing S&T advice to Defence. Dr. Fabrizio is a Fellow of the IEEE and the principal author of over 50 peer-reviewed journal and conference publications. He is a recipient of the M. Barry Carlton Memorial Award for the best paper published in the IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems (AES) on two occasions (2003 and 2004). In 2007, he received the DST Groups coveted Science and Engineering Excellence award for his contributions to adaptive processing in Australias Jindalee Operational Radar Network (JORN). Dr. Fabrizio has presented OTH radar tutorials at seven national and international IEEE Radar Conferences. He is a member of the IEEE AES International Radar Systems Panel and is an IEEE AES Distinguished Lecturer. He served as Vice President of Education on the AES board of Governors (2012-2015) and is currently the Executive Vice President of the AES Society. Dr. Fabrizio has collaborated with international defence agencies including NRL, AFRL, IARPA, DRDC and ONERA under Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) agreements and has represented Australia in NATO SET-179, 182 and 227 task group activities. He has engaged extensively with private industry, including Lockheed Martin, BAE Systems and CEA Technologies, and has also collaborated with numerous academic institutions, both in Australia and abroad. Dr. Fabrizio received the IEEE AES Fred Nathanson Memorial Radar Award in 2011 for Contributions to OTH Radar and Radar Signal Processing. He is the sole author of a text entitled Over-the-Horizon Radar - Fundamental Principles, Signal Processing & Practical Applications, McGraw-Hill, NY, 2013.
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The 2016 AESS Class of IEEE Fellows includes Dr. Mark B. Yeary for contributions to radar systems for meteorology.
Mark B. Yeary received the B.S. (honors), M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX in 1992, 1994, and 1999, respectively. Since fall 2002, he has been with the School of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Oklahoma (OU), Norman, where he was named the endowed Hudson-Torchmark Presidential Professor in 2011. He is also one of the founding members of the Advanced Radar Research Center (ARRC) at OU. His research interests are in the areas of digital signal processing (DSP) as applied to customized DSP systems and instrumentation for radar systems with an emphasis on hardware
prototype development. For instance, he was the PI on the multi-channel receiver development for the SPY-1A antenna at the National Weather Radar Testbed (NWRT) at OU. He has served as a PI or Co-PI on grants from NASA, NSF, ONR, NOAA, Raytheon, DARPA (ACT Program with Rockwell-Collins), and AFRL. He has also spent fourteen summers (2002-2016) at Raytheon in or near Dallas, TX, USA. In the fall of 2012 and spring of 2013, Dr. Yeary joined the MITs Lincoln Laboratory on sabbatical on a team developing radar panels. He is a licensed Professional Engineer (PE).
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CORPORATE SUPPORTERS
The Organizing Committee of the 2016 IEEE Radar Conference wishes to express their sincere thanks to the corporate supporters for their generosity. PREMIER SUPPORTER
PLATINUM SUPPORTER
SILVER SUPPORTERS
BRONZE SUPPORTERS
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EXHIBITORS
The Organizing Committee of the 2016 IEEE Radar Conference wishes to thank our Exhibitors for their support.
Altera now part of Intel
Annapolis Micro Systems, Inc.
Ancortek
Evans Capacitor Company
4DSP
Gap Wireless
I2R Nanowave Inc.
IEEE AES
IET/SciTech Publishing
Information Systems Laboratories, Inc.
MathWorks
Pentek
Rohde & Schwarz
Rotating Precision Mechanisms, Inc.
SAMPL Lab, Technion
University of Oklahoma Advanced Radar Research Center
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STUDENT PAPER COMPETITION FINALISTS Isolating Target Return from Reflections via Doppler Differentiation Ravi Kadlimatti and Adly T. Fam A Gradient Descent Implementation of Adaptive Pulse Compression Patrick McCormick, Shannon D. Blunt, and Thomas Higgins Super-resolution for Bistatic Distortion Mitigation Davide Cataldo and Marco Martorella Ambiguity Function for Distributed MIMO Radar Systems Christos V. Ilioudis, Carmine Clemente, Ian Proudler, and John J. Soraghan Bistatic ISAR Imaging Based on Phase Synchronization with Fiber Optic Link Jie Tian, Yongsheng Cheng, Nan Xie, and Dong Hou Radio Frequency Interference Suppression in Ultra-wideband Synthetic Aperture Radar Using Range-Azimuth Sparse and Low-Rank Model Sonia Joy, Lam Nguyen, and Trac D. Tran Exploitation of Noise Radar Waveforms Dynamic Range Improvement Janusz S. Kulpa, ukasz Malikowski, Mateusz Malanowski, and Krzysztof S. Kulpa Low SNR Track Detection with OTHR Based on a Refraction Model Kevin Romeo, Yaakov Bar-Shalom, and Peter Willett Radar Fall Motion Detection Using Deep Learning Branka Jokanovic, Moeness G. Amin, and Fauzia Ahmad A Recursive Approach for Adaptive Parameters Selection in a Multifunction Radar Mohammed Alahmadi, Graeme E. Smith, and Christopher Baker
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WOMEN IN RADAR NETWORKING AND MENTORING EVENT
Proudly sponsored by
Tuesday, May 3, 2016, 12:00-1:20 pm
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The 2016 IEEE International Radar Conference is pleased to present the Women in Radar Networking and Mentoring Lunch. This annual event brings together female radar researchers and practitioners (plus interested male colleagues) at all experience levels and employment affiliations. Developing a convivial atmosphere enhances meaningful discussion of issues unique to women but important and pertinent to everyone in the radar and associated communities. This year we will have a speed networking event. Participants will be divided into mentor and protg groups based on experience level in the field. Each protg will rotate through all the mentors and have a chance to obtain quick, yet valuable, feedback on career issues. Guiding questions will be provided, but participants are encouraged to bring their own. The session will end with general discussion and questions among the group. Participants are encouraged to bring business cards to exchange during networking. A buffet lunch will be provided.
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TUTORIALS
Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is a radar imaging mode that maps radar reflectivity of the ground. This is an important earth resource monitoring and analysis tool in the civilian and government communities, and an important intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) tool for the military and intelligence communities. The tutorial proposed herein is intended to provide an introduction to the physical concepts, processing, performance, features, and exploitation modes that make SAR work, and make it useful. Although mathematics will be shown in some parts of the presentation, more than enough to keep any attendee happy, the lecture will focus on the qualitative significance of the mathematics rather than dry derivations. Liberal use of example SAR images and other data products will be used to illustrate the concepts discussed. The presentation will be given as four distinct modules, each based on (but enhanced from) presentations developed and given by the presenter in numerous non-public forums to government, military, industry, and academic groups.
Biography: Dr. Armin Doerry is a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff in the ISR Mission Engineering Department of Sandia National Laboratories. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Mexico. He has worked in numerous aspects of Synthetic Aperture Radar and other radar systems analysis, design, and fabrication since 1987, and continues to do so today. He has taught Radar Signal Processing classes (and related topics) as an adjunct professor at the University of New Mexico, and has taught numerous seminars on SAR and other radar topics to government, military, industry, and academic groups.
A-1 Introduction to Synthetic Aperture Radar
Presented by Dr. Armin W. Doerry, Sandia National Labs, USA
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Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar (ISAR) is a technique used for reconstructing radar images of moving targets. Often, modern high-resolution radars implicitly offer the system requirements needed for implementing ISAR imaging. ISAR images can be obtained by means of a signal processing that can be enabled both on and off-line by using dedicated image formation algorithms. Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) systems are often based on the use of radar images because they provide a 2D electromagnetic map of the target reflectivity. Therefore, classification features that contain spatial information can be extracted and used to increase the performance of classifiers. The understanding of ISAR image formation is crucial for optimizing ATR systems that are based on such images.
As a special offer, proof of registration for this tutorial will entitle attendees to a 40% discount on copies of Dr. Martorellas new Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging book (ref: https://sci.presswarehouse.com/Books/BookDetail.aspx?productID=369891) if purchased at the conference.
Biography: Dr. Marco Martorella received his Laurea degree (Bachelor & Masters) in Telecommunication Engineering in 1999 (cum laude) and his PhD in Remote Sensing in 2003, both at the University of Pisa. He is now an Associate Professor at the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Pisa where he lectures Fundamentals of Radar and Digital Communications and an external Professor at the University of Cape Town where he lectures High Resolution and Imaging Radar within the Masters in Radar and Electronic Defense. He is a regular visiting Professor at the University of Adelaide and at the University of Queensland in Australia. He is author of more than a hundred international journal and conference papers and three book chapters. He has presented several tutorials at international radar conferences including tutorials on Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar and IEEE radar conferences and organized a special issue on Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar for the Journal of Applied Signal Processing. He is a member of the IET Radar Sonar and Navigation Editorial Board, a senior member of the IEEE and a member of AFCEA. He is also chair of the NATO SET-196 on Multichannel/Multistatic radar imaging of non-cooperative targets. He has been recipient of the 2008 Italy-Australia Award for young researchers, the 2010 Best Reviewer for the IEEE GRSL and the IEEE 2013 Fred Nathanson Memorial Radar Award. His research interests are mainly in the field of radar imaging, including passive, multichannel, multistatic and polarimetric radar imaging.
A-2 Introduction to Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar
Presented by Dr. Marco Martorella, University of Pisa, Italy
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Whether you are a student seeking real data to prove your Ph.D. thesis, or a researcher planning for experimentation in your grant proposal, or a system engineer in need of a radar prototype to demonstrate your innovative idea to a customer, you will be faced with prototyping a radar system with limited time and budget. There exist many books and tutorials on basic and advanced signal processing, but little is found on how to build your radar prototype that can support and run these algorithms. This tutorial will provide you with practical skills and techniques needed to build your advanced radar prototype. The focus is not on how devices/algorithms work, but on how to relate the choice of microwave devices and signal processing algorithms to the desired radar specifications.
You will learn how to interpret datasheets and how to interface with vendors. The course will end with a step-by-step MIMO radar design example, starting from the requirements and ending with a schematic and bill of material. All participants will also receive a free consultation to their current radar system design until their project is completed.
Biography: Dr. Lo Monte has more than ten years of applied RF, EW, and radar system design experience, from small companies (PCTEL), consulting (Patina) and non-profit institutions (UDRI) to large defense contractors worldwide (Rheinmetall A.G., General Dynamics) and government research agencies (U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, NATO). He is also an associate professor at the University of Dayton, where he teaches the courses Introduction to Radar, Modern Radar Signal Processing, Radar/RF Systems Design, Introduction to Electronic Warfare, and the Keysight-sponsored RFM W Measurement Laboratory. Throughout his career, he gained experience in HF-to-W Band radar systems prototyping, including monopulse radar, radar transmitters, surveillance radars, multistatic ISAR and tomography, MIMO radar, GPR, passive HF/VHF/UHF systems, radars for IED/EFP detection, ballistic missile defense radar, resonance exploitation, RF/IR integration, DRFM, electronic attack, waveform design, instrumentation control, antenna/microwave component design, computational electromagnetics, inverse scattering, digital signal processing, electrical/mechanical CAD design. He has been a visiting scholar to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and is currently in the adjunct faculty at the University College London.
Academically, Dr. Lo Monte has published over 50 peer reviewed journal and conference papers and two book chapters. He is also the director of the Mumma Radar Laboratory, which hosts the first tomographic and distributed sensing chamber worldwide. Dr. Lo Monte has been very active in the IEEE community, serving as vice chair of the IEEE Dayton Section, as an associate editor of the IEEE Sensors Journal and technical reviewer for 11 different IEEE societies. He volunteered as co-chair, technical panel member, steering committee member, judge, special session organizer, and session chair in many transnational conferences.
A-3 Radar Systems Prototyping
Presented by Dr. Lorenzo Lo Monte, University of Dayton, USA
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Multi-target tracking is currently a hot topic, explicitly called out in the scope of the conference. Target tracking algorithms have been evolving for the last 50 years, most notably with the development of the probability hypothesis density (PHD) algorithm, with its flurry of recent papers. Researchers are achieving significant new progress building on the fundamentals of tracking. This tutorial will ground the students in the fundamentals of multi- target tracking, with emphasize on the issues faced with designing a tracking system to meet requirements, and identifying where new technology is desirable for improving system capabilities. The presenter has 29 years of experience in designing and implementing tracking systems, and she will be filling the tutorial with her insights into what happens when design meets reality. This presentation is built upon the Lockheed Martin Top Gun program, used to train LM practicing engineers in the art of designing radar tracking systems.
Biography: Dr. Donna Smith has been designing, simulating, and implementing radar target trackers for the last 29 years. She obtained her MSEE at the University of California at Irvine, with a focus on signal processing, and worked with Sam Blackman (author of Design and Analysis of Modern Tracking Systems) at her first job at Hughes Aircraft Company in El Segundo, CA. After extensive early experience developing tracking algorithms for fighter jets, Donna accepted a job at Lockheed Martins Mission Systems and Training (MST) facility in Moorestown, NJ. Since then, she has led the design and implementation of tracking systems for Lockheed Martins DD(X) Volume Search Radar (VSR), Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) surveillance radar, Three-Dimensional Expeditionary Long-Range (3DELRR) radar prototype, and most recently Space Fence.
A-4 Multi-target Tracking Systems
Presented by Donna F. Smith, Lockheed Martin, USA
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Surface moving target indication (SMTI) involves searching the Earths surface for moving objects using a dedicated radar mode. SMTI radar detects, locates, and discriminates surface vehicles and other objects against rural, suburban, maritime, and urban settings. While SMTI radar can be deployed in a number of ways, this tutorial comprehensively considers airborne or satellite-borne SMTI radar design and operation. The presenter has successfully provided tutorials at past IEEE radar conferences on a number of topics, including STAP, space-based radar, MIMO radar, radar signal processing, and knowledge-aided signal processing. This tutorial leverages the presenters chapter on SMTI in Principles of Modern Radar: Radar Applications (Chapter 9), as well as other materials he has developed over an extended period of time.
Biography: Dr. William Melvin is Deputy Director for Research at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), Director of the Sensors and Intelligent Systems Directorate at GTRI, a University System of Georgia Regents Researcher, and an Adjunct Professor in Georgia Techs Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. His research interests include all aspects of sensor technology development, including radar systems engineering, mode development, and signal processing. He has authored numerous papers in his areas of expertise and holds three US patents on adaptive sensor technology. He is the co-editor of two of the three volumes of the popular Principles of Modern Radar book series. Among his distinctions, Dr. Melvin is the recipient of the 2014 IEEE Warren White Award, 2006 IEEE AESS Young Engineer of the Year Award, the 2003 US Air Force Research Laboratory Reservist of the Year Award, and the 2002 US Air Force Materiel Command Engineering and Technical Management Reservist of the Year Award. He was chosen as an IEEE Fellow for his contributions to adaptive radar technology, and is also a Fellow of the Military Sensing Symposium (MSS). Also, he is a member of the Board on Army Science and Technology, served on the Air Force Studies Board on Developmental Planning organized through the National Academy of Science, and has served on other committees sponsored by the National Research Council. Dr. Melvin received the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Lehigh University, as well as the MSEE and BSEE degrees (with high honors) from this same institution, respectively.
A-5 Surface Moving Target Indication (SMTI)
Presented by Dr. William L. Melvin, Georgia Tech Research Institute, USA
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Radar Systems Engineering, in many ways, can be more of an art than a science. For younger engineers, picking up the skill sets necessary for a successful career in radar systems is not always readily available. This session is designed to provide a practical tool set for engineers entering the radar profession. It presents the fundamentals and goes through a number of problems to cover some of the necessary as well as non-intuitive aspects of radar engineering.
Knowledge transfer is a critical task for radar houses to ensure success with the next generation. Capturing the extensive technical and program information held with the senior workforce is almost mandatory. A board of technical advisors can devise curriculum such that its current, important to the lines of business, and that the format of lectures is uniform in the level of content and the amount of information for better understanding and retention. Within the radar systems engineering realm, a graduate-level understanding is a worthy goal but providing a working knowledge for new hires and non-radar engineers can be just as relevant. This session is a subset of lectures on radar systems engineering fundamentals and will provide an introduction to radar systems, range equation and radar signal processing techniques as well as the nature of physical observables and propagators, the effects of the propagation medium on sensor performance, the relationship between signals and noise, and the characteristics of critical sensor functions (including detection and tracking).
Biography: Ingar Blosfelds received BS in Electrical Engineering and BS Computer Science degrees from Duke University in 1983 and the Juris Doctor degree from Rutgers University in 1994 and did his MS in Electrical Engineering degree work at Drexel University. He joined Lockheed Martin in 1983 and continues to work as a radar and weapons systems engineer in their Moorestown, NJ facility. He was selected as a Lockheed Martin Fellow in 2006 and co-founded the companys Top Gun engineering training program and is the lead instructor and Curriculum Director. He is also an adjunct professor at Rowan University, teaching radar systems engineering in their graduate school.
A-6 The ABCs of Radar System Engineering and Knowledge Transfer
Presented by Ingar T. Blosfelds, Lockheed Martin, USA
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SAR/ISAR images have been largely used for earth observation, surveillance, classification and recognition of targets of interest. The effectiveness of such systems may be limited by a number of factors, such as poor resolution, shadowing effects, interference, etc. Moreover, both SAR and ISAR images are to be considered as two-dimensional maps of the real three-dimensional object. Therefore, a single sensor may produce only a two-dimensional image where its image projection plane (IPP) is defined by the system-target geometry. Such a mapping typically creates a problem for the image interpretation, as the target image is only a projection of it onto a plane. In addition to this, monostatic SAR/ISAR imaging systems are typically quite vulnerable to intentional jammers as the sensor can be easily detected and located by an electronic counter- measure (ECM) system. Bistatic SAR/ISAR systems can overcome such a problem as the receiver can act covertly due to the fact that it is not easily detectable by an ECM system, whereas multistatic SAR/ISAR may push forward the system limits both in terms of resolution and image interpretation.
Biographies: Dr. Marco Martorella received his Laurea degree (Bachelor & Masters) in Telecommunication Engineering in 1999 (cum laude) and his PhD in Remote Sensing in 2003, both at the University of Pisa. He is now an Associate Professor at the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Pisa where he lectures Fundamentals of Radar and Digital Communications and an external Professor at the University of Cape Town where he lectures High Resolution and Imaging Radar within the Masters in Radar and Electronic Defence. He is a regular visiting Professor at the University of Adelaide and at the University of Queensland in Australia. He is author of about 150 international journal and conference papers, three book chapters and a book entitled Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging: Principles, Algorithms and Applications. He has presented several tutorials at international radar conferences and organized a special issue on Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar for the Journal of Applied Signal Processing. He is a member of the IET Radar Sonar and Navigation Editorial Board, a senior member of the IEEE and a member of AFCEA. He is also chair of the NATO SET-196 on Multichannel/Multistatic radar imaging of non-cooperative targets. He has been recipient of the 2008 Italy-Australia Award for young researchers, the 2010 Best Reviewer for the IEEE GRSL and the IEEE 2013 Fred Nathanson Memorial Radar Award. His research interests are mainly in the field of radar imaging, including passive, multichannel, multistatic and polarimetric radar imaging.
Dr. Brian Rigling received the B.S. degree in physics-computer science from the University of Dayton in 1998 and received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from The Ohio State University in 2000 and 2003, respectively. From 2000 to 2004 he was a radar systems engineer for Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems in Baltimore, Maryland. Since July 2004, Dr. Rigling has been with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Wright State University, and was promoted to associate professor in 2009, professor in 2013, and department chair in 2014. For 2010, he was employed at Science Applications International Corporation as a Chief
B-1 Bistatic and Multistatic Radar Imaging
Presented by Dr. Marco Martorella, University of Pisa, Italy and Dr. Brian Rigling, Wright State University, USA
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Scientist while on leave from Wright State University. He has authored chapters for 3 textbooks and has authored more than eighty conference and journal papers. In 2007, Dr. Rigling authored the chapter on Bistatic Synthetic Aperture Radar for the book Advances in Bistatic Radar, edited by Nicholas Willis and Hugh Griffiths. Dr. Rigling has served on the IEEE Radar Systems Panel since 2009, and has been an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. He was the General Chair for the 2014 IEEE Radar Conference.
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This tutorial will comprehensively discuss next generation digital array radar design considerations and how they impact radar performance operationally. This is crucial for the design and development of many future DoD and commercial radars because:
Radar clutter, jamming, and electromagnetic interference environments are evolving and becoming more challenging and
Radar products are transitioning from traditional analog array architectures to digital array architectures that take advantage of cost-effective technology components.
This tutorial will include detailed discussions of the trades between digital array technology components, array architectures, and radar system concepts & techniques needed to most effectively meet next generation radar operational needs. In order to enable Lockheed Martin to respond to these evolving radar customer needs, the presenters have provided similar digital array tutorials to multiple disciplines of engineers across the Lockheed Martin Corporation (including radar systems, hardware, and software architects and designers).
Biographies: Jude Giampaolo is a Lead Member of Engineering Staff at LM Mission Systems and Training in Moorestown, NJ and is currently the Lead Radar Analyst for the Space Fence Radar. He has over 16 years of experience in systems and subsystems design and development of ship and ground-based phased array radar, and over 13 years of experience in development of digital array radar. His experience spans digital array architecture and hardware design as well as algorithm development to mitigate the effects of complex interference environments during radar operations. He has authored various papers and has given multiple tutorials across the Lockheed Martin Corporation in the area of active, digital array radar design and adaptive processing. He holds a BS in electrical engineering from Case Western Reserve University and an MS in electrical engineering from Pennsylvania State University.
Fotis Koubiadis is a Lockheed Martin Fellow and Certified Advanced Systems Architect at LM Mission Systems and Training (MST) in Moorestown, NJ. He has over 21 years of experience in detailed systems, subsystems, and technology design and development of ship and ground-based phased array radar. This includes over 13 years of experience in digital array radar developments, demonstrations and applications. His experience spans digital array architecture and hardware design as well as algorithm development to mitigate the effects of complex interference environments during radar operations. He has authored various papers, has a patent and two additional patents pending, and has given multiple tutorials across the Lockheed Martin Corporation in the area of active, digital array radar design. His work in this area has been recognized with a corporate-level Nova award (LMs highest award) and multiple Evening of Stars awards (LM MSTs highest award). He holds a BS in electrical engineering from Cornell University and an MS in electrical engineering from Drexel University.
B-2 Jamming, Electromagnetic Interference, and Clutter Impacts on Future Radars
Presented by Jude Giampaolo, Lockheed Martin, USA and Fotis Koubiadis, Lockheed Martin, USA
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It is well known that the Matched Filter maximizes the SNR, and that SNR is the sufficient statistic to predict Detection performance. Commonly, Harry Van Trees seminal work Detection, estimation, and Modulation Theory Part 1 is referenced. Modern radar often does much more than detection however. Additionally, some of the assumptions and constraints described by Van Trees are broken in modern radar. Personal discussions with Dr. Van Trees in the early 2000s made it clear that he thought that his work was being misunderstood, and his conclusions on the Matched Filter optimality documented in his book were not including all of the assumptions and constraints and were therefore being mis-applied. His quote to me was I hate it when people mis-quote me. This tutorial will attempt to faithfully represent his work, including all the assumptions and constraints that make the Matched Filter not necessarily optimum in a practical sense for modern radar, although it clearly works quite well. Other ideas on the application of parameter estimation approaches will be described and how they relate to the work of Van Trees, and under what conditions they may be superior to the Matched Filter and its variants (e.g multi-dimensional, weighted, etc.) Our goal with respect to the non-Gaussian problem is modest. First, it is to leave the user with an awareness that in any given situation we must verify that the Gaussian model is either valid or an adequate approximation to obtain useful results. Second, if the Gaussian model does not hold, we should be willing to try to solve the actual problem (even approximately) and to not retain the Gaussian solution because of its neatness. Van Trees Vol 1, pg 377
Biography: Dr. John Garnham is a practicing Research and Development Engineer with 30 years experience in space systems and sensors (optical and radar), presently working for Applied Technology Associates in Albuquerque NM. He spent 7 years active duty in the US Air Force and retired as a Major from the Air Force Reserves. He has a Bachelors degree in Physics and Math from Syracuse University, and is presently a graduate student in a research degree program at University College London (UK) part-time, working from home (US). He was working in Waveform Diversity before it had a name, using parameter estimation to process radar data, in the late 90s. Mr. Garnham has researched multiple applications of parameter estimation and information theory concepts applied to radar signal processing to maximize performance. He previously developed with his partner Dr. Jaime Roman a pulse-pulse adaptive waveform approach that exploited Mutual Information criteria to adapt the transmitted waveform in time to maximize the information the radar collected increasing performance, under a contract with the Air Force Research Lab Sensors Directorate in the early 2000s. Mr. Garnham was also the Chief Scientist for an Air Force Research Lab distributed formation flying satellite radar concept and technology development program in the late 90s to early 2000s.
B-3 Re-thinking the Matched Filter for Radar
Presented by John Garnham, University College London, UK
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The tutorial will present the concept of continues wave radar emitting noise or pseudo- noise waveform. Noise waveforms have significant advantages over the classical radar waveforms, as they do not have range nor Doppler ambiguities and can be used in dense electromagnetic environment without significant interferences with other devices using this some spectrum. However, noise radars suffer from a near-far problem, so it would be difficult to design long range CW noise radar. The signal processing in noise radar is more complicated than in classical radar since all targets echoes are received simultaneously and have to be resolved. Since the targets are illuminated for long times, it is not only possible to detect and track targets using noise radar but also to perform non-cooperative identification using micro-Doppler analyses and to create ISAR images of the targets. To increase the power density on the target and provide spatial diversity of the illuminating signal, noise radar can be used in MIMO configurations using co-located as well as spatially separated antennas. Prof. Kulpa has given several tutorials in the past on noise radar technology. The last was held during the EURAD 2014 conference, but the similarity will be less than 25%.
Biography: Dr. Krzysztof S. Kulpa received his M. Sc., Ph.D. and Dr Sc. degrees from the Department of Electronic Engineering, Warsaw University of Technology (WUT) in 1982, 1987 and 2009 respectively. From 1985 to 1988 he worked at the Institute of Electronic Fundamentals, WUT, and in the years 1988-1990 he was Associate Professor at the Electrical Department of the Technical University of Biaystok. In the period 1990-2005 he worked as a scientific consultant in WZR RAWAR. Since 1990 he has been an Associate Professor at the Institute of Electronic Systems (WUT). He is now the head the Radar Technology Research Group at WUT. Since 2011 he has held the position of Scientific Director of the Defense and Security Research Center of the Warsaw University of Technology. In 2014 he obtained the title of State Professor, granted by the President of Poland. His research interests are in the digital signal processing area, particularly radar signal processing. His research covers noise and passive radar signal processing, radar imaging, detection and tracking. A significant part of his activity has been devoted to application problems. The results of his work have been implemented in several radars produced by the Polish radar industry, and he was involved in the creation of the first Polish SAR radar. He has managed several research projects, and for the past 15 years, his main area of research has been in airborne passive radars.
B-4 Noise Radar - New Challenges in SISO and MIMO Radars
Presented by Dr. Krzysztof S. Kulpa, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
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Adaptive arrays improve the reception of desired signals in the presence of interference and jamming signals in radar systems. They are designed to complement other interference suppression techniques, such as low sidelobe antennas, spread-spectrum techniques, and high directivity. Modern adaptive antenna systems can automatically sense the presence of interference and suppress it, while maintaining desired signal reception. Many techniques are available with differing levels of complexity and performance, but most seek to optimize SINR, the ratio of signal to (interference plus noise). Attendees will survey these techniques and learn the practical and mathematical aspects of their use. This course will begin by reviewing the basics of antenna arrays and beamforming. We then study classic covariance matrix-based approaches, including the LMS gradient-based algorithm and the LS and MVDR block processing algorithms. The remaining portion of the course covers specialty techniques useful for large arrays, such as sidelobe cancellation and partially adaptive arrays, as well as non- digital techniques such as reconfigurable arrays. Guidance on which algorithms are best in specific applications will be provided. Versions of this course have been presented at five previous conferences.
Biographies: Dr. Prof. Randy L. Haupt received the BSEE from the USAF Academy (1978), the MS in Engineering Management from Western New England College (1982), the MSEE from Northeastern University (1983), and the PhD in EE from The University of Michigan (1987). He is Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Colorado School of Mines and was an RF Staff Consultant at Ball Aerospace & Technologies, Corp., a Senior Scientist and Department Head at the Applied Research Laboratory of Penn State, Professor and Department Head of ECE at Utah State, Professor and Chair of EE at the University of Nevada Reno, and Professor of EE at the USAF Academy. He was a project engineer for the OTH-B radar and a research antenna engineer for Rome Air Development Center early in his career. Dr. Haupt's research interests and expertise spans a wide range of topics in electromagnetics that include theoretical, numerical, and experimental projects. He is co-author of the books Practical Genetic Algorithms, 2nd edition, John Wiley & Sons, 2004, Genetic Algorithms in Electromagnetics, John Wiley & Sons, 2007, and Introduction to Adaptive Antennas, SciTech, 2010, as well as author of Antenna Arrays - a Computation Approach, John Wiley & Sons, 2010. Dr. Haupt was the Federal Engineer of the Year in 1993 and is a Fellow of the IEEE and Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES). He is a member of the IEEE Antenna Standards Committee and served as an Associate Editor for the "Ethically Speaking" column in the IEEE AP-S Magazine. He has presented this tutorial at five prior conferences, both alone and with Dr. Leifer.
Dr. Mark Leifer is an internal Staff Consultant at Ball Aerospace, where he works on radar, communications and EW systems. He received his B.S. in Physics and Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Stanford University. He was a Fellow in Cardiology at the Stanford Medical School where
B-5 Adaptive Array Antennas
Presented by Dr. Randy Haupt, Colorado School of Mines, USA and Dr. Mark Leifer, Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., USA
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he worked on novel instruments for cardiovascular diagnosis, and spent a year in Italy as a Visiting Professor of Physics at the University of Rome. He subsequently spent many years designing Magnetic Resonance Imagers at Siemens and Varian, where he was the system architect and chief hardware designer for the worlds first 4T high-field human MRI product. He later worked on adaptive beamforming and Smart Antenna systems for telecommunications applications, first at ArrayComm in San Jose and then at Ericsson Wireless in Colorado. His patented spatial null-deepening algorithm is installed in more than 300,000 cellular base stations world-wide. At Ball Aerospace, Dr. Leifer resides in the Phased Array and RF Technology group, where his work includes algorithm development for both spatially and temporally adaptive systems. He has co-presented this tutorial with Prof. Haupt at previous IEEE Radar and IEEE Antennas and Propagation conferences.
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The tutorial provides an introduction to cognitive processing for radar systems. The emphasis is placed on how the emerging theories can be taken and applied in practice. Essentially, an attempt is made to answer the question: How does one build a cognitive radar? The meaning of cognition, from an engineering perspective, is discussed and a case is made as to why future radar system need to be cognitive. From this base position, techniques by which cognitive- like algorithms can be developed are discussed and the role of bioinspired signal processing considered. A mathematically rigorous, generalized cognitive framework will be introduced and examples of its use in experimental tests given. Further examples will be provided of how cognition can be, and in some cases already is, used in radar processing. The tutorial will close with remarks on how the radar engineering community can move forwards with cognitive processing as a new part of its design toolkit. Dr Smith has given half-day tutorials at the International Radar Conference and as part of The Ohio State Universitys CERF activity. For the latter, he first gave the tutorial at OSU and was then invited to give it onsite at Raytheon Tucson, AZ.
Dr Bell has given half- day tutorials on Bayesian Multiple Target Tracking at the 2015 FUSION and OCEANS conferences, and on Bayesian Bounds at the 2007 ICASSP Conference. Each of these tutorials had the highest registration numbers at their respective conferences.
Biographies: Dr. Graeme E. Smith is a Research Scientist at The Ohio State University and is a visiting scholar at University College London. His pertinent research interests include: cognitive/fully adaptive radar processing; the role of cognition in radar resources management; echoic flow for radar and sonar; passive bistatic and multistatic radar systems; bistatic/MIMO clutter; radar micro- Doppler signatures; target recognition/classification; and coherent-on-receive radars for sea surface monitoring. His primary focus is research into how radar processing can be improved through mankinds understanding of cognitive processes. In essence he seeks to answer the question of how the abilities of natural, cognitive echolocating sensors, that can be so successful that certain species rely on them for their survival, can be achieved in man- made sensors. Before joining the team at The Ohio State University, Dr Smith worked at Villanova University where his research focused on through-the-wall radar imaging. Prior to this he completed his Ph.D. and first post-doctoral position at University College London. Between 1999 and 2004 he worked as a lead systems engineer for BAE SYSTEM developing radar warning receivers. Dr. Smith is a member of the IET and a Senior Member of the IEEE.
Dr. Kristine L. Bell is a Senior Scientist at Metron, Inc. and also holds an Affiliate Faculty position in the Statistics Department at George Mason University (GMU). From 1996- 2009, Dr. Bell was an Associate/Assistant Professor in the Statistics Department and C4I Center at GMU. During this time, she was also a visiting researcher at the Army Research Laboratory and the Naval Research Laboratory. She received the B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Rice
B-6 Cognitive Processing for Radar Systems: From Theory to Practice
Presented by Dr. Graeme E. Smith, The Ohio State University, USA and Dr. Kristine L. Bell, Metron Inc., USA
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University in 1985, and the M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Ph.D. in Information Technology from GMU in 1990 and 1995. Her technical expertise is in the area of statistical signal processing for source localization and tracking with applications in radar, sonar, aeroacoustics, and satellite communications. Her current research interests include cognitive sensing, processing, and sensor fusion. She is a co-author (with L. Stone, R. Streit, and T. Corwin) of the book Bayesian Multiple Target Tracking, 2nd edition, co-author (with H. Van Trees and Z. Tian) of the book Detection, Estimation, and Modulation Theory, Part I, 2nd edition, and co-editor (with H. VanTrees) of the book Bayesian Bounds for Parameter Estimation and Nonlinear Filtering/Tracking. In 2009, she received the George Mason University Volgenau School of Engineering Outstanding Alumnus Award. She is a Fellow of the IEEE.
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This tutorial will provide an introduction to the modeling of radar sea clutter and its application to modern maritime radar design. Maritime radars operate in a challenging environment and the design of radars that can reliably detect small targets on the sea surface remains at the forefront of radar research. A major part of the challenge is the need to discriminate between returns from targets and those from the sea surface, i.e. the sea clutter. In order to design better detection systems, predict performance, test systems with simulated data and assess operational performance, considerable attention is paid to the mathematical modeling of sea clutter. This tutorial will provide the background to this modeling and introduce the latest research results in this still- evolving field.
Simon Watts has presented tutorials on radar sea clutter and modeling at over 12 radar conferences since 1997. Luke Rosenberg has presented related material at two radar conferences in 2015.
Biographies: Dr. Simon Watts graduated from the University of Oxford in 1971, obtained an MSc and DSc from the University of Birmingham in 1972 and 2013, respectively, and a PhD from the CNAA in 1987. He was deputy Scientific Director and Technical Fellow in Thales UK until 2013 and is a Visiting Professor in the department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at University College London. He joined Thales (then EMI Electronics) in 1967 and since then has worked on a wide