IEE Proceedings - Radar, Sonar and Navigation

IEE Proceedings - Radar, Sonar and Navigation

Online ISSN 1359-7086
Print ISSN 1350-2395

Published from 1994-2006, IEE Proceedings - Radar, Sonar and Navigation contained significant and original contributions on the theory and practice of systems involving the processing of signals for radar, radiolocation, radionavigation and surveillance purposes. Examples of the fields of application include sonar, electronic warfare, avionic and navigation systems. Processing directed towards the above application areas includes advances in waveform design, adaptive array and super-resolution methods, tracking algorithms, synthetic aperture and target recognition techniques.

This journal was previously known as IEE Proceedings F (Radar and Signal Processing) 1989-1993. ISSN 0956-375X. more..

This publication is continued by IET Radar, Sonar & Navigation 2007-. ISSN 1751-8784. more..

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Range/Doppler ambiguity elimination in high-frequency chirp radars
- Author(s): H. Zhou ; B. Wen ; Z. Ma ; S. Wu
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- p. 467 –472 (6)
  Range/Doppler ambiguity is an important problem in chirp radar operations with all the existing schemes for ambiguity elimination relying on multiple waveform switching. Now, a new method for ambiguity elimination is proposed. It is based on a single waveform and only involves a series of software computations associated with the instantaneous amplitudes of the target under consideration at adjacent range bins. Besides the ambiguity factor, the instantaneous range of the target is also estimated. The method can greatly improve the target detection and tracking capability of high-frequency chirp radars. Both simulation and real data processing results are demonstrated to validate of the method.
Statistical analysis of measured polarimetric clutter data at different range resolutions
- Author(s): M. Greco ; F. Gini ; M. Rangaswamy
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- p. 473 –481 (9)
  This paper deals with the statistical modelling of radar backscattering from sea surface at low-grazing angles in high resolution radar systems. High-resolution polarimetric data at different range resolutions (60, 30, 15, 9 and 3 m) are analysed to highlight the differences in clutter statistical behaviour due to changes of resolution and/or polarisation. The clutter data were recorded by the IPIX radar of McMaster University in Grimsby, Ontario, Canada.
Periodic binary codes with zero and small time sidelobe levels
- Author(s): M. Shinriki ; H. Takase ; H. Susaki
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- p. 482 –486 (5)
  A periodic binary sequence that compresses a pulse to a width of several chips is proposed. In the region of relatively small compression ratios, many periodic binary sequences exist for which peak sidelobe levels are smaller than those of conventional codes such as m-sequences.
Demonstration of knowledge-aided space-time adaptive processing using measured airborne data
- Author(s): C.T. Capraro ; G.T. Capraro ; A. De Maio ; A. Farina ; M. Wicks
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- p. 487 –494 (8)
  The design and analysis of a knowledge-aided detector for airborne space-time adaptive processing (STAP) applications are addressed. The proposed processor is composed of a training data selector, which chooses secondary cells best representing the clutter statistics in the cell under test, and an adaptive processor for detection processing. The data selector is a hybrid algorithm, which pre-screens training data through the use of terrain information from the United States Geological Survey. Then, in the second stage, a data-driven selector attempts to eliminate residual non-homogeneities. The performance of this new approach is analysed using measured airborne radar data, obtained from the multi-channel airborne radar measurements program, and is compared with alternative STAP detectors proposed in the open literature.
Investigation into arc-type sideband responses in SAR and ISAR imagery
- Author(s): A.J. Lawson and C.P. Moate
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- p. 495 –501 (7)
  Rihaczek and Hershkowitz have proposed that radar scattering from man-made targets is dominated by cavity-type reflectors that do not meet the assumptions of point scatterer theory. The effect of such dispersive scattering is to produce spurious bright responses in the radar image that can appear as a number of peaks lying along an arc. If such arc-type responses do exist in radar imagery then their removal would enhance the ability to focus moving target imagery and to perform automatic target recognition. Rihaczek and Hershkowitz have outlined a method for identifying such arc-type responses that use the image phase. Algorithms have been written to automate the outlined procedure and used to analyse a large number of synthetic and inverse synthetic aperture radar images. Arcs are present in most radar images of static and moving ground targets. To investigate whether the arcs are due to a physical mechanism or a chance occurrence, randomised target imagery was generated and also analysed. No significant differences are seen between the distributions of arc numbers obtained from randomised and real imagery. In conclusion, the arcs present in the real imagery are likely to occur by chance, rather than because of an underlying scattering mechanism.

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Volumes & issues:

Volume 153 (2006)

Volume 152 (2005)

Volume 151 (2004)

Volume 150 (2003)

Volume 149 (2002)

Volume 148 (2001)

Volume 147 (2000)

Volume 146 (1999)

Volume 145 (1998)

Volume 144 (1997)

Volume 143 (1996)

Volume 142 (1995)

Volume 141 (1994)

Latest content

Range/Doppler ambiguity elimination in high-frequency chirp radars

Statistical analysis of measured polarimetric clutter data at different range resolutions

Periodic binary codes with zero and small time sidelobe levels

Demonstration of knowledge-aided space-time adaptive processing using measured airborne data

Investigation into arc-type sideband responses in SAR and ISAR imagery

Most viewed content for this Journal

Most cited content for this Journal