Millimeter-wave radar has demonstrated its high efficiency in complex environments in recent years, which outperforms LiDAR and computer vision in human activity recognition in the presence of smoke, fog, and dust. In previous studies, researchers mo...
The single channel Circular Synthetic Aperture Radar (CSAR) has the advantage of continuous surveillance of a fixed scene of interest, which can provide high frame rate image sequences to detect ground moving targets. Recent image-sequence-based CSAR...
The range–Doppler (R–D) model is extensively employed for the geometric processing of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. Refining the sensor motion state and imaging parameters is the most common method for achieving high-precision ge...
This paper proposes a novel drone detection method based on a convolutional neural network (CNN) utilizing range–Doppler map images from a frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) radar. The existing drone detection and identification techniq...
Range–Doppler (RD) spectrogram-based maritime target recognition requires effective feature learning when labeled training samples are limited and the range and Doppler axes convey different physical information. We propose DAMD-Net, which comb...
For skywave over-the-horizon radar, beamforming techniques are often used to suppress airspace radio frequency interference because the high-frequency band is shared by many devices. To address the problems that the traditional beamforming method is...
Synthetic wideband waveforms (SWW) combine a stepped frequency CW waveform and a chirp signal waveform to achieve high range resolution without requiring a large bandwidth or the consequent very high sampling rate. If an efficient algorithm like the...
With the development of autonomous driving and the emergence of various intelligent traffic scenarios, object detection technology based on deep learning is more and more widely applied to real traffic scenarios. Commonly used detection devices inclu...
In this paper, we propose a range-Doppler algorithm (RDA)-based synthetic aperture radar (SAR) processor for real-time SAR imaging and present FPGA-based implementation results. The processing steps for the RDA include range compression, range cell m...
A multifunctional scatterometer system and optimized radar signal processing for simultaneous observation of various physical oceanographic parameters are described in this paper. Existing observation methods with microwave remote sensing techniques...
How to enhance the desired signal with low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is a difficult problem in the estimation process of the direction-of-arrival (DOA) of the target scattering wave signal. In this paper, the feasibility of spatial spectrum estimat...
In traditional localization methods for synthetic aperture radar (SAR), the range sum estimation and Doppler centroid estimation (DCE) are required. The DCE error can influence the localization accuracy greatly. In addition, the target height informa...
With the growing demand for large-scale urban observation, multi-channel technology has become a cornerstone of high-resolution wide-swath SAR systems. The challenge of storing and transmitting the large data volumes generated by multi-channel system...
Compound noise, clutter, and multipath reduce target–background separability in frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) radar Range–Doppler (RD) maps. Rawonly processing can leave interference-obscured weak targets insufficiently salie...
A trend in the development of spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) technology is the shift from a single-satellite repeated observation mode to a multi-satellite collaborative observation mode. However, current multi-satellite collaborative geol...
This paper focuses on detecting and tracking maneuvering weak targets in the range–Doppler (RD) plane with the track-before-detect (TBD) algorithm based on dynamic programming (DP). Traditional DP-TBD algorithms integrate target detection and t...
Interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) products may be significantly distorted by microwave signals traveling through the ionosphere, especially with long wavelengths. The split-spectrum method (SSM) is used to separate the ionospheric and...
Mainlobe active deception jamming significantly degrades radar target detection in complex electromagnetic environments. Current anti-jamming detection approaches inadequately exploit the spatiotemporal information inherent in target echoes, thereby...
Aiming at core bottlenecks in weak and small target detection in radar range-Doppler (RD) spectra under low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR)—including severe performance degradation of traditional constant false alarm rate (CFAR) detectors and the i...
Severe phenomena of across range-Doppler unit (ARDU) and decoherence occur when radar detects high-speed and high-maneuvering targets, causing degradation in detection performance of traditional FFT radar detection methods. The improvement in radar r...
Radar detection and track building performance is an essential part of a radar system. A high realized coherent integration gain often contributes to an improved performance. This is essential to the successful detection and tracking of weak moving t...
There have been several studies of hand gesture recognition for human–machine interfaces. In the early work, most solutions were vision-based and usually had privacy problems that make them unusable in some scenarios. To address the privacy iss...
Airborne radar plays a crucial role in detecting aerial targets, but its detection capability can be significantly affected by strong ground clutter when operating in down-looking mode. The range-Doppler (RD) results of ground clutter in airborne rad...
Ship detection is an essential maritime security requirement. Current state-of-the-art synthetic aperture radar (SAR) based ship detection methods employ fully focused images. The time-consuming processing efforts required to generate these images ma...
Frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar system synchronization using external clock signals can cause repeated Range-Doppler (R-D) map corruption when clock signal asynchronization problems occur between the transmitter and receiver. In this...
A compact 24 GHz FMCW radar board was evaluated for low-speed bicycle and small-vehicle sensing under strict memory and latency constraints. The hardware uses only 30 MHz modulation bandwidth, giving a nominal range resolution of about 5.0 m and a Do...
To address the high computational cost and significant resource consumption of radar Doppler-based target recognition, which limits its application in real-time embedded systems, this paper proposes a lightweight CNN (Convolutional Neural Network) ap...
In this paper, we propose to extract the motions of different human limbs by using interferometric radar based on the micro-Doppler-Range signature (mDRS). As we know, accurate extraction of human limbs in motion has great potential for improving the...
In this paper, we present ground moving target indication (GMTI) signal processing algorithm encompassing clutter suppression, target detection and parameter estimation. One of the most significant yet least publicized is the need of the GMTI mode fo...
There is growing demand for the high-fidelity characterization of satellites in Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO) to support Space Domain Awareness (SDA). This is particularly true for newly launched satellites, where it is necessary for satellite pro...
Measured radar point-target detection under ground clutter is difficult because weak target echoes often compete with clutter peaks, and image-space detections do not directly represent physical range-Doppler coordinates. This paper proposes a wavefo...
For an automotive pedestrian detection radar system, fast-ramp based 2D range-Doppler Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) radar is effective for distinguishing between moving targets and unwanted clutter. However, when a weak moving target suc...
The frequency of terahertz radar ranges from 0.1 THz to 10 THz, which is higher than that of microwaves. Multi-modal signals, including high-resolution range profile (HRRP) and Doppler signatures, can be acquired by the terahertz radar system. These...
In frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) radar systems, the detection of Doppler-extended targets (DETs) is a critical challenge. The micro-Doppler effects induced by the motion of extended targets such as pedestrians cause the echo energy to sp...
Radar sensors accurately detect different objects; however, the reliable classification of these objects remains challenging. In this contribution, new approaches to extracting and interpreting unique spectral features of pedestrians and cyclists are...
Because of the large range of cell migration (RCM) and nonstationary Doppler frequency modulation (DFM) produced by non-cooperative targets with rapid spinning motions, it is difficult to efficiently generate a well-focused bistatic inverse synthetic...
An intelligent approach is proposed and investigated in this paper for the detection of ultra-low-altitude sea-skimming moving targets for airborne pulse Doppler radar. Without suppressing interferences, the proposed method uses both target and multi...
Automotive radar is one of the key sensors for intelligent driving. Radar image sequences contain abundant spatial and temporal information, enabling target classification. For existing radar spatiotemporal classifiers, multi-view radar images are us...
Recent advancement of satellite synthetic aperture radar (SAR) techniques require more sophisticated system configurations such as the use of bistatic antennas or multi-frequencies. A ground-based experiment is a cost-effective and efficient way to e...
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Accurate geometric positioning is essential for the quantitative application of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery. Although geometric calibration can effectively reduce systematic positioning errors, the cross-scene transferability of calibratio...
In this paper, we present a new high-resolution algorithm for primary signal processing in High Frequency Surface Wave Radar (HFSWR). The algorithm has been developed to achieve and improve primary signal processing performance in existing HFSWR rada...
This paper presents a unified perspective on Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM)-based joint radar–communication (JRC) sensing, focusing on the efficient reuse of time and frequency resources in range–Doppler estimation and...
As a new high-resolution spaceborne SAR observation mode, sliding-spot imaging has the characteristics of a large squint, long aperture time, and azimuth aliasing, and because of the dechirp operation in the imaging algorithm of this mode, it is diff...
The Rational Function Model (RFM) has been widely used as an alternative to rigorous sensor models of high-resolution optical imagery in photogrammetry and remote sensing geometric processing. However, not much work has been done to evaluate the appl...
The block adjustment method can correct systematic errors in the bistatic Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry (InSAR) satellite system and effectively improve the accuracy of the InSAR-generated Digital Elevation Model (DEM). Presently, non-param...
With the intensifying competition among countries in lunar and deep-space exploration, the forward communication bands between Earth and the Moon are becoming increasingly congested. Spread-spectrum communication is poised to replace conventional uni...
The range-Doppler algorithm (RDA), a key technique for generating synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images, offers high-resolution images but requires significant memory resources and involves complex signal processing. Moreover, the multitude of fast F...
High-frequency surface wave radar (HFSWR) is widely used for detecting sea surface or low-altitude targets due to its all-weather operation and over-the-horizon detection capability. To further enhance the maneuverability and detection range of HFSWR...
This paper delves into the impact of the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) constellation orbit accuracy on Differenced One-Way Doppler (DOWD)-based user spacecraft orbit determination, specifically when the TDRS orbit is derived solely from Te...
This study investigated the feasibility of remotely estimating the urinary flow velocity of a human subject with high accuracy using millimeter-wave radar. Uroflowmetry is a measurement that involves the speed and volume of voided urine to diagnose b...
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