Title :
VHF cross-range profiling of aerial targets via passive ISAR: Preliminary experimental results
Author :
Marongiu, V. ; Palmarini, C. ; Pastina, D. ; Colone, F. ; Lombardo, P.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf. Eng., Univ. of Rome “Sapienza”, Rome, Italy
Abstract :
In this paper we investigate the possibility of obtaining cross-range profiles of real aerial targets by exploiting FM transmitters as illuminators of opportunity and by applying Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar (ISAR) techniques against the collected passive radar echoes. To this purpose a suitable processing scheme has been developed to successfully exploit the very long Coherent Processing Interval (CPI) required to attain a reasonable cross-range resolution. The results are shown against real data set collected by an experimental setup developed and fielded at DIET Dept. of the University of Rome “Sapienza”. This allows to preliminary demonstrate advanced potentialities of a FM-based PBR in aerial targets surveillance applications.
Keywords :
passive radar; radar resolution; radar transmitters; search radar; synthetic aperture radar; CPI; FM transmitter; FM-based PBR; Sapienza; University of Rome; aerial target VHF cross-range profiling; aerial target surveillance application; coherent processing interval; cross-range resolution; inverse synthetic aperture radar technique; passive ISAR; Apertures; Doppler effect; Estimation; Frequency modulation; History; Polynomials; Target tracking;
Conference_Titel :
Radar Symposium (IRS), 2015 16th International
Conference_Location :
Dresden
DOI :
10.1109/IRS.2015.7226375
