A study of direction finding method for passive airport surveillance radar

Author

Otsuyama, Takuya ; Honda, Junichi

Author_Institution

Surveillance & Commun. Dept., Electron. Navig. Res. Inst., Chofu, Japan

fYear

2014

fDate

2-5 Dec. 2014

Firstpage

393

Lastpage

394

Abstract

The current Air Traffic Management (ATM) uses various radio equipment. The radar is the one of important system and the recent ATM uses a combination of several radar systems. However, the conventional Primary Surveillance Radar have a high cost of maintenance and operation. Recently, Multi-Static Primary Surveillance Radar (MSPSR) has attracted interest from the civil aviation research field. The MSPSR is classified into passive bistatic radar (PBR). In this paper, we discussed receiver side direction finding method (DF) for the passive PSR system. This method is required for MSPSR. We show the DF method based on interferometer and experimental results, and we discussed the potential of DF for the passive PSR system.

Keywords

air traffic control; airports; passive radar; radar interferometry; radar receivers; radio direction-finding; search radar; ATM; DF method; MSPSR; PBR; air traffic management; civil aviation research field; interferometer; multistatic primary surveillance radar; passive PSR system; passive airport surveillance radar; passive bistatic radar; radio equipment; receiver side direction finding method; Aircraft; Airports; Antennas; Passive radar; Receivers; Surveillance; direction finding; interferometer; passive radar system;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation (ISAP), 2014 International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Kaohsiung

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISANP.2014.7026696

Filename

7026696