Radar Signal and Data Processing with Applications, 2nd Edition

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Dear Colleagues,

Radars perform a significant role in the airborne, vehicle, shipborne, or surface deformation monitoring fields because of their all-day and all-weather abilities. Many studies have been carried out to improve the sensing precision of radars, such as multi-dimensional sensing, multi-domain detection, and super-resolution methods, among others. However, it is difficult to fully extract information using traditional data processing approaches. With the development of artificial intelligence, radar performance has been improved. Therefore, there is a need to further explore new AI technologies or advanced algorithms with high precision and performance. This Topic collection is open to researchers and authors who want to submit works in the fields of radar applications, new methods in radar signal processing, novel approaches to improving radar performance, and AI methods in radars. We are looking forward to submissions on topics of interest including but not limited to the following:

• Radar signal processing;
• AI in radar;
• Radar imaging;
• Super-resolution radar;
• Airborne radar;
• Vehicle radar;
• Shipborne radar;
• Surface deformation radar;
• Biomedical radar to include vital sign monitoring and other biomedical radar applications;
• Antennas for radar applications;
• mmWave radars;
• New radar applications.

Prof. Dr. Yin Zhang
Prof. Dr. Yulin Huang
Dr. Deqing Mao
Dr. Yanki Aslan
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Journal Name	Impact Factor	CiteScore	Launched Year	First Decision (median)	APC
Applied Sciences applsci	2.5	5.5	2011	18.4 Days	CHF 2400	Submit
Remote Sensing remotesensing	4.1	8.6	2009	23.9 Days	CHF 2700	Submit
Sensors sensors	3.5	8.2	2001	18.6 Days	CHF 2600	Submit
Signals signals	2.6	4.6	2020	28.3 Days	CHF 1000	Submit
Electronics electronics	2.6	6.1	2012	16.4 Days	CHF 2400	Submit

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Research on a Particle Filtering Multi-Target Tracking Algorithm for Distributed Systems

by Bing Han, Zilong Ge, Zhigang Su and Jingtang Hao

Sensors 2025, 25(11), 3495; https://doi.org/10.3390/s25113495 - 31 May 2025

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The growth of unmanned aerial vehicle applications in the low-altitude economy demand advanced multi-target tracking systems. Unlike traditional approaches that assume independent measurements, distributed systems generate coupled measurements containing additional target relationship information. This paper proposes a novel distributed particle filtering algorithm through [...] Read more.

The growth of unmanned aerial vehicle applications in the low-altitude economy demand advanced multi-target tracking systems. Unlike traditional approaches that assume independent measurements, distributed systems generate coupled measurements containing additional target relationship information. This paper proposes a novel distributed particle filtering algorithm through introducing the coupled measurement into the conventional particle filtering method. In the proposed method, we fuse direct and coupled measurements via optimization and then build a cost function to optimize the particle weights. Comparative evaluations across motion models, noise levels, and the number of targets demonstrate the outperforming performance of the proposed method compared to conventional particle filtering and the unscented Kalman filtering algorithm, with more than 7% accuracy improvement over baselines. The results prove particular robustness to measurement noise and the increasing number of targets. Full article

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Online Sparse Reconstruction for Real Aperture Radar by Beam Recursive-Sliding Updating Framework

by Xichen Yin, Deqing Mao, Yongchao Zhang, Yin Zhang, Yulin Huang, Jianyu Yang and Qiping Zhang

Remote Sens. 2025, 17(11), 1887; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs17111887 - 29 May 2025

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Real aperture radar (RAR) can acquire the forward-looking target scene of interest continuously in scanning mode by arbitrary imaging geometry; however, the achievable angular resolution is predominantly governed by the physical dimensions of the antenna’s aperture. In contemporary radar imaging methodologies, the reconstruction [...] Read more.

Real aperture radar (RAR) can acquire the forward-looking target scene of interest continuously in scanning mode by arbitrary imaging geometry; however, the achievable angular resolution is predominantly governed by the physical dimensions of the antenna’s aperture. In contemporary radar imaging methodologies, the reconstruction of sparsely distributed targets can be effectively formulated as an $L_1$-regularized optimization framework through the exploitation of a priori sparsity constraints, thereby enabling the generation of enhanced-resolution forward-looking radar imagery. Nevertheless, traditional target reconstruction methods based on the sparse regularization framework are implemented after batch data collection, which comes at the cost of significant operational complexity and storage space. To address this challenge, an online sparse reconstruction method based on a beam recursive-sliding (BRS) updating framework is proposed to achieve fast target reconstruction. First, the antenna measurement matrix is repaired to reduce the imaging edge information error. Then, due to the independence of the echo data within two beamwidths, a beam recursive updating method is proposed for each two beamwidths echo data by the structural properties of the repaired antenna measurement matrix. Finally, based on the proposed beam recursive updating method, a sliding updating approach is proposed for the whole imaging region to reduce the computational redundancy and storage requirement. Simulation and experimental data demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed BRS updating framework. Full article

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ESCI: An End-to-End Spatiotemporal Correlation Integration Framework for Low-Observable Extended UAV Tracking with Cascade MIMO Radar Subject to Mixed Interferences

by Guanzheng Hu, Xin Fang, Darong Huang and Zhenyuan Zhang

Electronics 2025, 14(11), 2181; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics14112181 - 27 May 2025

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Continuous and robust trajectory tracking of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) plays a crucial role in urban air transportation systems. Accordingly, this article presents an end-to-end spatiotemporal correlation integration (ESCI)-based UAV tracking framework by leveraging a high-resolution cascade multiple input multiple output (MIMO) radar. [...] Read more.

Continuous and robust trajectory tracking of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) plays a crucial role in urban air transportation systems. Accordingly, this article presents an end-to-end spatiotemporal correlation integration (ESCI)-based UAV tracking framework by leveraging a high-resolution cascade multiple input multiple output (MIMO) radar. On this account, a novel joint anti-interference detection and tracking system for weak extended targets is presented in this paper; the proposed method handles them jointly by integrating a continuous detection process into tracking. It not only eliminates the threshold decision-making process to avoid the loss of weak target information, but also significantly reduces the interference from other co-channel radars and strong clutters by exploring the spatiotemporal correlations within a sequence of radar frames, thereby improving the detectability of weak targets. In addition, to accommodate the time-varying number and extended size of radar reflections, with the ellipse spatial probability distribution model, the extended UAV with multiple scattering sources can be treated as an entity to track, and the complex measurement-to-object association procedure can be avoided. Finally, with Texas Instruments AWR2243 (TI AWR2243) we can utilize a cascade frequency-modulated continuous wave–multiple input multiple output (FMCW-MIMO) radar platform. The results show that the proposed method can obtain outstanding anti-interference performance for extended UAV tracking compared with state-of-the-art methods. Full article

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Three-Dimensional Localization Method of Underground Target Based on Miniaturized Single-Frequency Acoustically Actuated Antenna Array

by Chaowen Ju, Yixuan Liu, Jianle Liu, Tianxiang Nan, Xinger Cheng and Zhuo Zhang

Electronics 2025, 14(9), 1859; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics14091859 - 2 May 2025

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The acoustically actuated antenna technology enables a significant reduction in antenna dimension, facilitating miniaturization of ground-penetrating radar systems in the very high-frequency (VHF) band. However, the current acoustically actuated antennas suffer from narrow bandwidth and low range resolution. To address this issue, this [...] Read more.

The acoustically actuated antenna technology enables a significant reduction in antenna dimension, facilitating miniaturization of ground-penetrating radar systems in the very high-frequency (VHF) band. However, the current acoustically actuated antennas suffer from narrow bandwidth and low range resolution. To address this issue, this paper proposed a three-dimensional (3D) localization method for underground targets, which combined two-dimensional (2D) array direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation with continuous spatial sampling without relying on range resolution. By leveraging the small dimension of acoustically actuated antennas, a 2D uniform linear array was formed to obtain the target’s angle using DOA estimation. Based on the variation pattern of 2D angles in continuous spatial sampling, the genetic algorithm was employed to estimate the 3D coordinates of underground targets. The numerical simulation results indicated that the root mean square error (RMSE) of the proposed 3D localization method is 1.68 cm, which outperforms conventional methods that utilize wideband frequency-modulated pulse signals with hyperbolic vertex detection in theoretical localization accuracy, while also demonstrating good robustness. The gprMax electromagnetic simulation results further confirmed that this method can effectively localize multiple targets in ideal homogeneous underground media. Full article

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A Multi-Receiver Pulse Deinterleaving Method Based on SSC-DBSCAN and TDOA Mapping

by Jie Xue, Binbin Su, Yongcai Liu and Jin Meng

Electronics 2025, 14(9), 1833; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics14091833 - 29 Apr 2025

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Deinterleaving pulses of various pulse repetition interval (PRI) modulation modes constitute a vital and challenging task for an electronic measures system (ESM). A deinterleaving method based on multi-receiver time-difference-of-arrival (TDOA) is proposed in this paper. Firstly, this paper theoretically analyzes the distribution feature [...] Read more.

Deinterleaving pulses of various pulse repetition interval (PRI) modulation modes constitute a vital and challenging task for an electronic measures system (ESM). A deinterleaving method based on multi-receiver time-difference-of-arrival (TDOA) is proposed in this paper. Firstly, this paper theoretically analyzes the distribution feature of TDOA, providing the basis of deinterleaving. Then, a SSC (Sorting Skipping Clustering)-DBSCAN algorithm is proposed to achieve TDOA clustering by pre-sorting and traversing key points, which reduces the computational complexity. The TDOA mapping algorithm is further proposed to separate pulses and eliminate Cross-Pulse TDOAs simultaneously based on a one-time clustering result, which can significantly decrease the false alarm rate while avoiding clustering TDOA repeatedly. Simulation results show that the proposed method is capable of deinterleaving pulses of various PRI modulation modes and the performance remains excellent under multiple parameter settings. The running time and the false alarm rate have been reduced by at least 66% and 17%, respectively, compared with the existing methods. Full article

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