Flooding is one of the most devastating natural disasters occurring annually in the Philippines. A call for a solution for this malady is very challenging as well as crucial to be addressed. Mapping flood hazard is an effective tool in determining the extent and depth of floods associated with hazard level in specified areas that need to be prioritized during flood occurrences. Precedent to the...

This paper explores the bene"t of combining the data of a microwave phased-array radar with those of a low-frequency radar to detect and track a target with a low radar cross-section. The microwave phased-array radar has a fairly good target location accuracy that can be fruitfully combined with the good detection capabilities of the low-frequency radar. One technical problem to solve is the de...

This paper addresses the problem of optimum waveform design for multiple target detection. The notion of poly-semantic radar, which gave improved performance through coincidence detection, is analyzed for high resolution radar system in presence of high density additive noise and Doppler shift. These sequences are optimized by employing Hamming backtrack algorithm (HBT). The detection capabilit...

It has been shown that the detection performance can be improved by exploiting the covariance matrix of the channel vector in the distributed MIMO radar. In this paper, we firstly introduce a system model in which the target is modeled as the sum of a finite number of independent scatterers without limitation on transmitter-receiver configurations. Using this system model, we make a detailed an...

This paper addresses the question of scattering center detection and estimation performance in synthetic aperture radar. Specifically, we consider sparse 3D radar apertures, in which the radar collects both azimuth and elevation diverse data of a scene, but collects only a sparse subset of the traditional filled aperture. We use a sparse reconstruction algorithm to both detect and estimate scat...

Radar is considered an important technology for health monitoring and fall detection in elderly assisted living due to a number of attributes not shared by other sensing modalities. In this paper, we describe the signal processing algorithms and techniques involved in elderly fall detection using radar. Radar signal returns from humans differ in their Doppler characteristics depending on the na...

The performance of frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar in tracking targets is presented and analysed. Obstacle detection, target tracking and radar target tracking performance models are developed and were used to investigate and to propose ways of improving the autonomous motion of unmanned surface vehicle (USV). Possible factors affecting the performance of FMCW radar in tracking...

This Chapter examines the problem of coherent multilook radar detection of targets in the sea from an airborne maritime surveillance platform. The radar of interest operates at high resolution, and at a high grazing angle, with frequency in X-Band, and is fully polarised. Typically, such surveillance radars are searching for small targets, such as fishing boats or submarine periscopes. When a r...

This paper fuses target detection and occupancy mapping theory to develop an improved method for outdoor mapping with a radar sensor. It is shown that the occupancy mapping problem is directly coupled with the signal detection processing which occurs in a range sensor, and that the required measurement likelihoods are those commonly encountered in both the target detection and data association ...