Measurements and analysis of multistatic and multimodal micro-Doppler signatures for automatic target classification

Author

Perassoli, Marcio ; Balleri, Alessio ; Woodbridge, Karl

Author_Institution

Div. of Defense Syst. (ASD), Inst. of Aeronaut. & Space, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil

fYear

2014

fDate

19-23 May 2014

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to present an experimental trial carried out at the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom to measure simultaneous multistatic and multimodal micro-Doppler signatures of various targets, including humans and flying UAVs. Signatures were gathered using a network of sensors consisting of a CW monostatic radar operating at 10 GHz (X-band) and an ultrasound radar with a monostatic and a bistatic channel operating at 45 kHz and 35 kHz, respectively. A preliminary analysis of automatic target classification performance and a comparison with the radar monostatic case is also presented.

Keywords

CW radar; Doppler radar; microsensors; microwave detectors; pattern classification; ultrasonic transducers; CW monostatic radar; Defence Academy of the United Kingdom; automatic target classification; flying UAV; frequency 10 GHz; frequency 35 kHz; frequency 45 kHz; multimodal microDoppler signature; multistatic microDoppler signature; sensor; ultrasound radar; Acoustics; Doppler radar; Feature extraction; Personnel; Sensors; Ultrasonic imaging;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radar Conference, 2014 IEEE

Conference_Location

Cincinnati, OH

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-2034-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RADAR.2014.6875608

Filename

6875608