Title :
Application of ICA to airport surveillance
Author :
Chaumette, Eric ; Comon, Pierre ; Muller, Daniel
Author_Institution :
Thomson-CSF, Meudon-La-Foret, France
Abstract :
As air traffic gets more and more dense, it becomes very difficult to locate and recognize planes in the neighborhood of civil airports. The technique proposed resorts to a particular device, the monopulse radar, and to a tool called independent component analysis (ICA), in order to separate messages falling in the same radar beam. The algorithms utilized to compute the ICA use second and fourth order cumulants of the observed signals.
Keywords :
airports; radar systems; ICA; air traffic; airport surveillance; algorithms; civil airports; fourth order cumulants; independent component analysis; monopulse radar; observed signals; radar beam; second order cumulants; Airports; Goniometers; Independent component analysis; Pulse measurements; Radar antennas; Radar equipment; Radar measurements; Satellite ground stations; Surveillance; Transponders;
Conference_Titel :
Higher-Order Statistics, 1993., IEEE Signal Processing Workshop on
Conference_Location :
South Lake Tahoe, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-1238-4
DOI :
10.1109/HOST.1993.264565