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Target Detection for Marine Radars Using a Data Matrix Bank Filter

  • Jang, Moon Kwang;Cho, Choon Sik
    • Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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    • v.13 no.3
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    • pp.151-157
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    • 2013
  • Marine radars are affected by sea and rain clutters, which can make target discrimination difficult. The clutter standard deviation and improvement factor are applied using multiple parameters-moving speed of radar, antenna speed, angle, etc. When a radar signal is processed, a Data Matrix Bank (DMB) filter can be applied to remove sea clutters. This filter allows detection of a target, and since it is not affected by changes in adjacent clutters resulting from a multi- target signal, sea state clutters can be removed. In this paper, we study the level for clutter removal and the method for target detection. In addition, we design a signal processing algorithm for marine radars, analyze the performance of the DMB filter algorithm, and provide a DMB filter algorithm design. We also perform a DMB filter algorithm analysis and simulation, and then apply this to the DMB filter and cell-average constant false alarm rate design to show comparative results.

Survivability, Mobility, and Functionality of n Rover for Radars in Polar Regions

  • Stansbury, Richard S.;Akers, Eric L.;Harmon, Hans P.;Agah, Arvin
    • International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems
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    • v.2 no.3
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    • pp.343-353
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    • 2004
  • This paper presents the survivability, mobility, and functionality of a rover as part of a radar system for polar regions. Rovers can provide autonomy and precision for radars used to measure ice thickness and other characteristics of ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica. These rovers can be used to move radar antennas in precise patterns for synthetic aperture radars while providing environmental protection and power to the onboard radar equipment. This paper describes the mobility, actuation, sensing, winterization, control, and virtual prototyping of a polar rover. The rover has been successfully tested in Greenland.

Track-to-Track Information Fusion using 2D and 3D Radars (2D와 3D 레이더를 이용한 정보융합 기법 연구)

  • Yoo, Dong-Gil;Song, Taek-Lyul;Kim, Da-Sol
    • Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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    • v.18 no.9
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    • pp.863-870
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    • 2012
  • This paper presents a track-to-tack information fusion algorithm using tracks of 2D and 3D radars. Before track fusion, it is needed to match the dimension of the tracks, as the tracks generated by 2D and 3D radars have different dimensions. This paper suggests how the 2D tracks are converted to the 3D tracks for track fusion. Through simulation studies, we can verify that the performance of the proposed method.

Imaging Method for Array Structured Bistatic Ground-to-Air Radar (배열 구조 바이스태틱 지대공 레이다의 이미징 기법)

  • Choi, Sang-Hyun;Yang, Dong-Hyeuk;Song, Ji-Min;Yang, Hoon-Gee
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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    • v.29 no.8
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    • pp.599-607
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    • 2018
  • This paper presents a ground-to-air bistatic radar system and its implementation algorithm, which resembles an SAR(synthetic aperture radar) reconstruction algorithm. Via cooperative working between a standoff transmitting radar and an array of ground based receiving radars, it detects and images moving targets under clutter in the air. In the proposed system, the whole receiving antenna aperture is synthesized by physical ground based radars, and thus, unlike conventional SAR, it does not require long illumination time of the target area. The reconstruction algorithm uses planewave approximation based polar format processing, which alleviates the requirement of positioning the receiving radars, which can cause grating lobes if not chosen properly. We derive a reconstruction algorithm including clutter suppression and discuss implementation issues, such as the resolution of a reconstructed image and the method of compensation for the irregularity of the receiving radars' positions. A simulation that validates the proposed algorithm is also shown.

Reflectivity Mosaic of Two Radars Using a Height-weighted Method (고도 가중 방법을 이용한 레이더 반사도의 합성)

  • Lee, Jung-Hoon;Jung, Sung-Hwa;Heo, Bok-Haeng;Kim, Kyung-Eak
    • Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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    • v.26 no.4
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    • pp.373-385
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    • 2010
  • A new method to mosaic reflectivity over the overlapped coverage of two radars was developed. The method mosaics the radar reflectivity with weights after adjustment of reflectivity differences on overlapped coverage of neighboring two radars. Their weights are inverse proportion to the difference between the height of an interpolated reflectivity and the level of CAPPI (Constant Altitude PPI). The performance of this method was compared to different mosaic methods (Mosaics by maximum value, averaged value, nearest value and distance weighted value) using the reflectivity fields of a typhoon event observed by two radar. New method was better than any other methods either as a continuity and as a bias analysis of reflectivity at the boundaries in overlapped coverage by two radars.

Development of Servo for Small Tracking Radars (소형 추적 레이다용 서보 개발)

  • Lee, Jong-Kuk;Lee, Seok-In;Kim, Jun-Su;Song, Tae-Seong;Eom, Young-Cheol;Ahn, Se-Hwan;Shin, Yu-Jin;Joo, Ji-han;Kwon, Jun-Beom;Kim, Sang-Wook
    • The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.22 no.6
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    • pp.21-30
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    • 2022
  • This paper describes the design, manufacture, and testing of servos applicable to small tracking radars. First, Chapter 1 describes the necessity of this study. Chapter 2 describes the development of servos applicable to future tracking radars in small missile systems. Chapter 3 describes the design and test results for current control of brushed DC motors, brushless DC motors, and permanent magnet synchronous motors. And Chapter 4 describes the design and test results for speed control of the test wheel. And in Chapter 5, the results of the previous tests are summarized. In this paper, some pictures were intentionally blurred for security reasons, and the control result of test wheel was described, not the test with the developed gimbals.

Analysis of Interference Protection among the Rain Radars (강우 레이더 전파간섭 분석)

  • Na, Sang-Kuen;Kim, Kun-Joong;Ji, Seg-Kuen;Kim, Young-Wan
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2012.05a
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    • pp.553-556
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    • 2012
  • The interference among the rain radars and interference in the adjacent wireless station due to the spurious signals from the rain radar were analyzed in this paper. The rain radar measures the rain intensity using S-band signal. The measured data are utilized in forecasting the rainfall. The interference among the rain radars or in the adjacent wireless stations may be caused by the high output power of rain radar. Based on the propagation analysis of S band signal and the deduced interference protection ratio of rain radar, the interference due to the rain radar are analyzed. Also, the radiation spectrum characteristics of a rain radar are deduced from the caused interference effects by the spurious signals of the rain radar.

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Evaluation of Effective Jamming/Deception Area of Active Decoy against Ground Tracking Radars on Dynamic Combat Scenarios (동적 교전 시나리오에서 지상 추적 레이다에 대한 이탈방사체의 효과적 재밍/기만 영역 분석)

  • Rim, Jae-Won;Lee, Sangyeob;Koh, Il-Suek;Baek, Chung;Lee, Seungsoo
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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    • v.28 no.4
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    • pp.269-278
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    • 2017
  • We analyze the jamming/deception performance of an active decoy against ground tracking radars on dynamic combat scenarios. Based on the movement and the interference flow of an airborne platform, the trajectories of the active decoy is accurately calculated by solving 6-degree of freedom equations of motion. On realistic combat scenarios, numerical simulations are examined to analyze the jamming performance of the decoy for various movements of the platform and RF specifications of the active decoy. Effective jamming/deception area against the ground tracking radars is estimated from the simulation.

Suppressio of mutual interference among vehicular radars by ON-OFF control of pulses (다중차량의 자동 주행 시의 레이터 상호간섭 억제)

  • 최병철;김용철
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.25 no.1B
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    • pp.62-70
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    • 2000
  • Intelligent vehicles are equipped with radar sensors for collision avoidance. We present a method of suppressing mutual interference among pulse-type radars, where all the radars are standardized. We developed a method of separating the true self-reflection from the false one by controlling the pulse emission of a radar in anorhogonal ON, OFF pattern. Interference signal identified in OFF-intervals is recorded to indicate the positions of the expected ghosts in ON-intervals. PFA and PM are derived for a radar system with I-Q demodulation scheme, where Gaussian noise alone is Rayleigh-distributed and Gaussian noise plus reflected radar pulse are Rician-distributed. The value of the threshold adaptively updated in order to prevent the deterioration of PM. In the experimental result, PFA decreases by an order of 10,000, when compared with the conventional M of N majority voting method.

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Time Synchronization Using Mutual Interference in Two FMCW Radars (두 대의 FMCW 레이다에서 레이다간 상호 간섭 신호를 이용한 시간동기화 방법)

  • Cho, Byung-Lae;Lee, Jung-Soo;Lee, Jong-Min;Sun, Sun-Gu
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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    • v.23 no.11
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    • pp.1323-1326
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    • 2012
  • In military applications, many radar systems are simultaneously operated at a close range. In particular, the frequency allocation must be executed for operating the homogeneous radar systems at the same time. As many radar systems are simultaneously operated with overlapping frequency bands, interference between systems inevitably occurs. Because interference can degrade radar performance, suppression of interference is a critical issue in radar systems. In this letter, we analyze the interference between two FMCW radars. In addition, time synchronization method between radars using mutual interference is proposed. Experiments are carried out to validate the proposed method. The results demonstrate that the proposed method is suitable for real radar systems.