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  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
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Phased-Array Radar System Simulator (PASIM): Development and Simulation Result Assessment

  • Zhe Li,
  • Sudantha Perera,
  • Yan Zhang,
  • Guifu Zhang and
  • Richard Doviak

19 February 2019

In this paper, a system-specific phased-array radar system simulator was developed, based on a time-domain modeling and simulation method, mainly for system performance evaluation of the future Spectrum-Efficient National Surveillance Radar (SENSR)....

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,563 Views
24 Pages

Augmented Millimeter Wave Radar and Vision Fusion Simulator for Roadside Perception

  • Haodong Liu,
  • Jian Wan,
  • Peng Zhou,
  • Shanshan Ding and
  • Wei Huang

Millimeter-wave radar has the advantages of strong penetration, high-precision speed detection and low power consumption. It can be used to conduct robust object detection in abnormal lighting and severe weather conditions. The emerging 4D millimeter...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,416 Views
10 Pages

Cluttered Environment and Target Simulator to Evaluate Primary Surveillance Radar Processors

  • Fernando Lara,
  • Ricardo Mena,
  • Antonio Flores,
  • Felipe Grijalva and
  • Roman Lara-Cueva

4 December 2023

This research article presents a comprehensive study focusing on advancing radar systems for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) surveillance in cluttered environments. The proliferation of UAV technology and its diverse applications have raised concerns a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,417 Views
21 Pages

A Radar Echo Simulator for the Synthesis of Randomized Training Data Sets in the Context of AI-Based Applications

  • Jonas Schorlemer,
  • Jochen Altholz,
  • Jan Barowski,
  • Christoph Baer,
  • Ilona Rolfes and
  • Christian Schulz

27 January 2024

Supervised machine learning algorithms usually require huge labeled data sets to produce sufficiently good results. For many applications, these data sets are still not available today, and the reasons for this can be manifold. As a solution, the mis...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,126 Views
22 Pages

14 February 2025

In this study, a simplified radar echo signal model suitable for radar simulators and a Radar Cross-Section (RCS) calculation model based on the Physical Optics (PO) method was developed. A comprehensive radar target ship echo generation algorithm wa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
916 Views
28 Pages

Simulation of Monopulse Radar Under Jamming Environments Based on Space Slicing

  • Shaoning Lu,
  • Yuefeng Deng,
  • Liehu Wu,
  • Qile Li and
  • Guodong Qin

17 September 2025

Under jamming environments, the simulation system of monopulse radar consumes substantial computational resources due to echo signal and jamming signal generation, as well as real-time radar signal processing, leading to large time consumption in eva...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,226 Views
22 Pages

9 May 2020

The rapid development and wide commercial implementation of automotive radar sensors are strengthening the already considerable interest in matching radar target simulators. Such simulators boast promising results when used for both essential functio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
9,706 Views
15 Pages

Radar Target Simulation for Vehicle-in-the-Loop Testing

  • Axel Diewald,
  • Clemens Kurz,
  • Prasanna Venkatesan Kannan,
  • Martin Gießler,
  • Mario Pauli,
  • Benjamin Göttel,
  • Thorsten Kayser,
  • Frank Gauterin and
  • Thomas Zwick

19 May 2021

Automotive radar sensors play a vital role in the current development of autonomous driving. Their ability to detect objects even under adverse conditions makes them indispensable for environment-sensing tasks in autonomous vehicles. As their functio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,704 Views
24 Pages

Accelerating Deep Learning in Radar Systems: A Simulation Framework for 60 GHz Indoor Radar

  • Philipp Reitz,
  • Timo Maiwald,
  • Jonas Bönsch,
  • Norman Franchi and
  • Maximilian Lübke

30 October 2024

FMCW radar systems are increasingly used in diverse applications, and emerging technologies like JCAS offer new opportunities. However, machine learning for radar faces challenges due to limited application-specific datasets, often requiring advanced...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,335 Views
22 Pages

12 August 2022

The sea clutter model based on the physical sea surface can simulate radar echo at different times and positions and is more suitable for describing dynamic sea clutter than the traditional models based on statistical significance. However, when appl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,884 Views
26 Pages

On the Detection of Vulnerable Road Users—Simulating Limits of an FMCW Radar

  • Fatih Yüksekkaya,
  • Norman Franchi and
  • Maximilian Lübke

The complexity of urban traffic environments poses unique challenges for automotive radar sensors. Limited range and Doppler resolution hinder the ability to distinguish closely spaced objects and detect vulnerable road users, particularly pedestrian...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,969 Views
20 Pages

Depth-integrated simulations of snow avalanches have become a central part of risk analysis and mitigation. However, the common practice of applying different model parameters to mimic different avalanches is unsatisfying. In here, we analyse this is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,864 Views
21 Pages

20 June 2022

An ultra-wideband electromagnetic pulse (UWB EMP) can be coupled to an FMCW system through metal wires, causing electronic equipment disturbance or damage. In this paper, a hybrid model is proposed to carry out the interference analysis of UWB EMP co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
573 Views
19 Pages

2 December 2025

The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as mobile sensor platforms has grown significantly in recent years, including applications where drones emulate radar targets or serve as dynamic measurement systems. This paper presents a novel approach to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,114 Views
22 Pages

With the development of information technology for modern military confrontations, radar emitter fingerprint identification has become a hot and difficult topic in the field of electronic warfare, especially in the field of electronic reconnaissance....

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,079 Views
19 Pages

18 February 2025

Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) is an effective geophysical method for rapid and non-destructive detection. Directional borehole radar is the application of GPR in a borehole, which can determine the depth, orientation, and distance of the target from...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,439 Views
21 Pages

Simulation of Pulse-Echo Radar for Vehicle Control and SLAM

  • Girmi Schouten,
  • Wouter Jansen and
  • Jan Steckel

13 January 2021

Pulse-echo sensing is the driving principle behind biological echolocation as well as biologically-inspired sonar and radar sensors. In biological echolocation, a single emitter sends a self-generated pulse into the environment which reflects off obj...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,673 Views
11 Pages

26 December 2022

By computer simulation, the main consequences of the “slice” approach to assessing the power of a radar return signal from an atmospheric water cloud were verified. The cloud was modeled as a set of slices, which are thin layers coincidin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,103 Views
19 Pages

Research on a Simulation Model of a Skywave Over-the-Horizon Radar Sea Echo Spectrum

  • Mengyan Feng,
  • Hanxian Fang,
  • Weihua Ai,
  • Xiongbin Wu,
  • Xianchang Yue,
  • Lan Zhang,
  • Chaogang Guo,
  • Qing Zhou and
  • Xiaoyan Li

18 March 2022

The capability of a skywave over-the-horizon radar (SWR) to achieve the continuous observation of a wide range of ocean dynamics parameters via a single ionospheric reflection has been demonstrated by many scholars. In order to expand the method of S...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,080 Views
23 Pages

13 August 2023

Aiming at the space target detection application of a space-based terahertz (THz) radar, according to the imaging mechanism of broadband THz radars, a THz radar imaging simulation method based on improved path tracing is proposed. Firstly, the charac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,640 Views
14 Pages

26 September 2019

Wind-power generation is one of the fundamental sources of renewable energy. However, due to the increasing size of wind turbines, they cause unwanted interference with radar systems for civic protection, especially for on-shore locations. This paper...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,841 Views
22 Pages

23 December 2021

Accurate high-resolution precipitation forecasts are critical yet challenging for weather prediction under complex topography or severe synoptic forcing. Data fusion and assimilation aimed at improving model forecasts, as one possible approach, has g...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
6,721 Views
24 Pages

Advancing Precipitation Estimation and Streamflow Simulations in Complex Terrain with X-Band Dual-Polarization Radar Observations

  • Marios N. Anagnostou,
  • Efthymios I. Nikolopoulos,
  • John Kalogiros,
  • Emmanouil N. Anagnostou,
  • Francesco Marra,
  • Elisabeth Mair,
  • Giacomo Bertoldi,
  • Ulrike Tappeiner and
  • Marco Borga

10 August 2018

In mountain basins, the use of long-range operational weather radars is often associated with poor quantitative precipitation estimation due to a number of challenges posed by the complexity of terrain. As a result, the applicability of radar-based p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,907 Views
18 Pages

30 July 2018

The disadvantage of radar measurements is that the obtained rainfall data is imprecise. Therefore, the use of radar data in hydrological applications usually requires correction. The main aim of the study was to verify and optimize various methods of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,154 Views
16 Pages

A Fast Synthetic Aperture Radar Raw Data Simulation Using Cloud Computing

  • Zhixin Li,
  • Dandan Su,
  • Haijiang Zhu,
  • Wei Li,
  • Fan Zhang and
  • Ruirui Li

8 January 2017

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) raw data simulation is a fundamental problem in radar system design and imaging algorithm research. The growth of surveying swath and resolution results in a significant increase in data volume and simulation period, wh...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,378 Views
20 Pages

Automotive millimeter-wave radars are widely used to measure kinematic parameters of surrounding objects in the environmental perception of automated vehicles and typically operate in frequency bands of around 24 GHz and 77 GHz. The 24 GHz and 77 GHz...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,028 Views
28 Pages

Comparison of DVB-T Passive Radar Simulated and Measured Bistatic RCS Values for a Pilatus PC-12 Aircraft

  • Peter J. Speirs,
  • Martin Ummenhofer,
  • Christof Schüpbach,
  • Matthias Renker,
  • Peter Wellig,
  • Diego Cristallini,
  • Daniel W. O’Hagan,
  • Michael Kohler and
  • Axel Murk

3 April 2022

Passive radar is a technology that has huge potential for airspace monitoring, taking advantage of existing transmissions. However, to predict whether particular targets can be measured in a particular scenario, it is necessary to be able to model th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
11,035 Views
16 Pages

Imaging Simulation for Synthetic Aperture Radar: A Full-Wave Approach

  • Chiung-Shen Ku,
  • Kun-Shan Chen,
  • Pao-Chi Chang and
  • Yang-Lang Chang

3 September 2018

Imaging simulation of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is one of the potential tools in the field of remote sensing. The echo signal in imaging simulation based on the point target model cannot be linked to practical scenes due to the model being a sim...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,763 Views
16 Pages

Modeling and Dynamic Radar Cross-Section Estimation of Chaff Clouds for Real-Time Simulation

  • Jun-Seon Kim,
  • Uk Jin Jung,
  • Su-Hong Park,
  • Dong-Yeob Lee,
  • Moonhong Kim,
  • Dongwoo Sohn and
  • Dong-Wook Seo

18 July 2023

Chaff is a passive jammer widely used to disrupt radar or radio-frequency sensors. A mass of chaff fibers dispersed in the air is commonly referred to as a chaff cloud. It is nearly impossible to numerically simulate in real-time the enormous amount...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,270 Views
22 Pages

25 March 2022

In this research, a summer orographic precipitation process that occurred over the Tian Shan Mountains on 27 July 2019, was investigated, focusing on the impact of vertical wind shear on clouds. Multiple remote sensors were deployed to measure the am...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,574 Views
27 Pages

14 October 2021

This article presents the hardware implementation and a behavioral model-based RF system modeling and simulation (M&S) study of compressive sensing (CS) based 2D angle-of-arrival (AoA) measurement system for 2–18 GHz radar electronic support meas...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,247 Views
24 Pages

11 August 2023

This study presents a comparative analysis of flood simulations using rain gauge, ground- and space-borne radar precipitation products. The objectives are to assess the effectiveness of two radar-based data sources, namely the Radar-AWS Rainrates (RA...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,215 Views
23 Pages

23 May 2023

Simulated raw data have become an essential tool for testing and assessing system parameters and imaging performance due to the high cost and limited availability of real raw data from spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR). However, with increasi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,657 Views
27 Pages

Detection of Small-Scale Subsurface Echoes Using Lunar Radar Sounder and Surface Scattering Simulations with a DEM Generated Using a Generative Adversarial Network

  • Hitoshi Nozawa,
  • Junichi Haruyama,
  • Atsushi Kumamoto,
  • Takahiro Iwata,
  • Kosei Toyokawa,
  • James W. Head and
  • Roberto Orosei

13 May 2025

Spaceborne radar is a powerful tool for probing planetary subsurface structures. Earlier radar studies of the Moon have primarily examined large-scale horizontal structures. However, recent discoveries of vertical holes suggesting the existence of la...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,787 Views
15 Pages

7 March 2025

In this study, we present a novel design methodology for unit cells in chessboard metasurfaces with the aim of reducing the radar cross-section (RCS) for linearly polarized waves. The design employs rotational symmetry and incorporates ten continuous...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
2,796 Views
19 Pages

Systematic Literature Review on Virtual Electronics Laboratories in Education: Identifying the Need for an Aeronautical Radar Simulator

  • Enderson Luiz Pereira Júnior,
  • Miguel Ângelo Lellis Moreira,
  • Anderson Gonçalves Portella,
  • Célio Manso de Azevedo Junior,
  • Igor Pinheiro de Araújo Costa,
  • Luiz Paulo Fávero,
  • Carlos Francisco Simões Gomes and
  • Marcos dos Santos

The objective of this work is to propose the development of a virtual electronics laboratory with an aeronautical radar simulator using immersive technologies to help students learn. To verify whether this proposal was viable, the systematic literatu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,346 Views
19 Pages

The Determination of Effective Beamwidth of Ku Band Profiling Radar Based on Waveform Matching Method in the Boreal Forest of Finland

  • Hui Zhou,
  • Yuwei Chen,
  • Nan Hu,
  • Yuandan Dong,
  • Xinmin Xu,
  • Ziyi Feng,
  • Teemu Hakala and
  • Juha Hyyppä

21 August 2020

Radar scientists typically define the radar beamwidth as a half-power beamwidth (HPBW) in the main lobe of the antenna pattern. However, the microwave radiations outside radar HPBW might also backscatter into the radar receiver and change the distrib...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,880 Views
16 Pages

Resolving Ambiguities in SHARAD Data Analysis Using High-Resolution Digital Terrain Models

  • Léopold Desage,
  • Alain Herique,
  • Sylvain Douté,
  • Sonia Zine and
  • Wlodek Kofman

28 January 2023

The SHAllow RADar (SHARAD) onboard Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is a 20 MHz Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) that probes the first hundreds of meters of the Martian subsurface. In order to interpret the detection of subsurface interfaces with grou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
8,536 Views
11 Pages

3D Printed Radar Lenses with Anti-Reflective Structures

  • Ross J. Friel,
  • Maria Gerling-Gerdin,
  • Emil Nilsson and
  • Björn P. Andreasson

11 June 2019

Background: The purpose of this study was to determine if 3D printed lenses with wavelength specific anti-reflective (AR) surface structures would improve beam intensity and thus radar efficiency for a Printed Circuit Board (PCB)-based 60 GHz radar....

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,460 Views
19 Pages

18 November 2024

This study employed version 4.2.2 of the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model for this simulation and applied two microphysics schemes, the Thompson scheme (THOM) and Milbrandt–Yau scheme (MY)—which are widely used in convective s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,487 Views
25 Pages

16 August 2019

Recently, the use of gridded rainfall data with high spatial resolutions in hydrological applications has greatly increased. Various types of radar rainfall data with varying spatial resolutions are available in different countries worldwide. As a re...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,260 Views
15 Pages

Performance Evaluation of Photonics-Based Coherent MIMO Radar Systems for Maritime Surveillance

  • Malik Muhammad Haris Amir,
  • Salvatore Maresca,
  • Gaurav Pandey,
  • Antonio Malacarne,
  • Antonella Bogoni and
  • Mirco Scaffardi

Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radars offer significant advantages over conventional standalone radars in terms of target detection and localization capabilities. However, to fully exploit their potential, such systems require excellent time a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
878 Views
21 Pages

Evaluation of X-Band Radar for Flash Flood Modeling in Guangrun River Basin

  • Yan Xiong,
  • Lingsheng Meng,
  • Jiyang Tian and
  • Yuefen Zhang

17 June 2025

Flash flood disasters occur frequently under the influence of climate change and human activities, with the characteristics of strong suddenness, a wide range of hazards, and difficult prediction. Obtaining high-spatial- and high-temporal-resolution...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
9,800 Views
23 Pages

7 April 2022

The development of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) puts forward higher requirements for millimeter-wave radar surveillance in the traffic environment, such as lower time delay, higher sensitivity, and better multi-target detection capability...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,050 Views
20 Pages

3 March 2025

Range gate pull-off (RGPO) jamming is an effective method for track deception aimed at radar systems. Nevertheless, enhancing the effectiveness of the jamming strategy continues to pose challenges, restricting the RGPO jamming method from achieving i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
9,186 Views
25 Pages

Ocean Wave Measurement Using Short-Range K-Band Narrow Beam Continuous Wave Radar

  • Jian Cui,
  • Ralf Bachmayer,
  • Brad DeYoung and
  • Weimin Huang

7 August 2018

We describe a technique to measure ocean wave period, height and direction. The technique is based on the characteristics of transmission and backscattering of short-range K-band narrow beam continuous wave radar at the sea surface. The short-range K...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,023 Views
19 Pages

Evaluating HF Coastal Radar Site Performance for Tsunami Warning

  • Belinda Lipa,
  • Donald Barrick and
  • James Isaacson

25 November 2019

We describe theoretical and experimental work for evaluating the suitability of coastal High Frequency (HF) radar sites for tsunami detection. A method is outlined which involves superimposing simulated tsunami velocities on typical radial current ve...

  • Letter
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,822 Views
11 Pages

Safe Helicopter Landing on Unprepared Terrain Using Onboard Interferometric Radar

  • Pavel E. Shimkin,
  • Alexander I. Baskakov,
  • Aleksey A. Komarov and
  • Min-Ho Ka

24 April 2020

This letter proposes a radar interferometric survey system for the ground surface of helicopter landing sites. This system generates high-quality three-dimensional terrain surface topography data and estimates the slope of the site with the required...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,489 Views
25 Pages

9 December 2021

With the increasing complexity of the electromagnetic environment and continuous development of radar technology we can expect a large number of modern radars using agile waveforms to appear on the battlefield in the near future. Effectively identify...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
873 Views
23 Pages

An Efficient SAR Raw Signal Simulator Accounting for Large Trajectory Deviation

  • Shaoqi Dai,
  • Haiyan Zhang,
  • Cheng Wang,
  • Zhongwei Lin,
  • Yi Zhang and
  • Jinhe Ran

9 July 2025

A synthetic aperture radar (SAR) raw signal simulator is useful for supporting algorithm innovation, system scheme verification, etc. Trajectory deviation is a realistic factor that should be considered in a SAR raw signal simulator and is very impor...

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