A smart antenna for the DOA estimation of impinging signals and passive obstacle detection for homeland security

Author

Pastorino, Matteo ; Randazzo, Andrea

Author_Institution

Dept. of Biophys. & Electron. Eng., Univ. of Genoa, Genova, Italy

fYear

2005

fDate

29-30 March 2005

Firstpage

70

Lastpage

75

Abstract

A smart antenna system for the detection of electromagnetic waves generated by unknown sources or reflected by passive scatterers is proposed. The approach is based on a support vector regression (SVR), which, after a proper training phase, allows very fast detection of the impinging unknown signals. The smart antenna system for homeland security is described in detail and numerical results are reported, which concern the detection and "separation" of several waves in noisy environments.

Keywords

adaptive antenna arrays; direction-of-arrival estimation; electromagnetic wave scattering; regression analysis; signal detection; source separation; DOA estimation; electromagnetic wave detection; homeland security; impinging signals; passive obstacle detection; passive scatterers; signal detection; smart antenna; source separation; support vector regression; training phase; Antenna measurements; Direction of arrival estimation; Electromagnetic scattering; Maximum likelihood estimation; Multiple signal classification; Phase detection; Reflector antennas; Signal generators; Terrorism; Working environment noise;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Measurement Systems for Homeland Security, Contraband Detection and Personal Safety Workshop, 2005. (IMS 2005) Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Workshop on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9121-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MSHS.2005.1502558

Filename

1502558