DocumentCode
3137752
Title
Illuminator of Opportunity Bistatic Radar research at DSTO
Author
Palmer, James ; Merrett, David ; Palumbo, Simon ; Piyaratna, Jayasanka ; Capon, Scott ; Hansen, Hedley
Author_Institution
Defence Sci. & Technol. Organ., Sydney, NSW
fYear
2008
fDate
2-5 Sept. 2008
Firstpage
701
Lastpage
705
Abstract
In this paper some aspects of DSTOpsilas Illuminator of Opportunity Bistatic Radar research are discussed. Detail is provided about such aspects as transmitter selection and characteristics, experimental configurations, power budget studies and some analysis of two of the transmitterspsila waveform ambiguity functions are provided. Initial results from field experiments demonstrating detections of cars, trucks and an aircraft using a terrestrial digital TV signal are also presented.
Keywords
radar antennas; radar cross-sections; opportunity bistatic radar; terrestrial digital TV signal; transmitter selection; waveform ambiguity functions; Bistatic radar; Hardware; Object detection; Phased arrays; Radar antennas; Radar cross section; Radio frequency; Satellite broadcasting; Spaceborne radar; Transmitters;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Radar, 2008 International Conference on
Conference_Location
Adelaide, SA
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-2321-7
Electronic_ISBN
978-1-4244-2322-4
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/RADAR.2008.4654011
Filename
4654011
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