The existence of non-radar radio frequency (RF) signals in the environment possessing radar-like characteristics make them ideal candidates for use in radar applications such as synthetic aperture radar (SAR). The orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) specific Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) waveform is one such example. Research at the Air Force Institute of...

The problem of detecting slow-moving targets using a space-time adaptive processing (STAP) radar is addressed. The determination of the optimum interference-rejection weights at each range is based on snapshots at neighbouring ranges. However, in virtually all bistatic configurations or/and when using conformal antenna arrays (CAA), snapshot statistics are range dependent, which results in poor...

this paper points out the frequency dependence on the polarimetric radar scattering behavior of the ocean surface in the frequency range 1-18 GHz (Lto Ku-band). We treat this problem with a unifying scattering model named Small Slope Approximation (SSA) to evaluate the Normalized Radar Cross Section (NRCS). The calculations were made by assuming the surface-height spectrum of Elfouhaily et al f...

We address the problem of detecting slow-moving targets using a space-time adaptive processing (STAP) radar. The construction of optimum weights at each range implies the estimation of the clutter covariance matrix. This is typically done by straight averaging of neighboring data snapshots. However, in bistatic configurations, these snapshots are rangedependent. As a result, straight averaging ...

A focusing solution for bistatic forward-looking synthetic aperture radar (BFSAR) is presented. Forward-looking imaging is highly desirable in some potential applications, such as self-landing in bad weather, military surveillance, and navigation. Unfortunately, monostatic synthetic aperture radar reaches its limit when it is used in a forward-looking configuration. BFSAR can provide a high-res...

We consider the context of marine surveillance and ocean imaging with bistatic radar. Since these systems are not yet mainstream and somewhat costly, not much experience has been accumulated yet in the literature and their usefulness is still under debate. We propose an approach to find potentially interesting bistatic configurations that could be used in the future to monitor the ocean, and es...

Based on an exact analytical bistatic point target spectrum, an efficient chirp-scaling algorithm is proposed to correct the range cell migration of different range gates to the one of the reference range for tandem bistatic synthetic aperture radar data processing. The length of the baseline (baseline to range ratio) does not give a direct influence to the proposed algorithm, which can be appl...

The Polar Format Algorithm (PFA) is suitable for spotlight synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image focusing either in monostatic or bistatic cases. The classic linear-trajectory PFA complete data correction in wavenumber domain, converting data from the polar format to the rectangular format. However, the twodimension processing (either using interpolation or chirp-z transform) introduces heavy co...

In non-cooperative bistatic synthetic aperture radar (SAR), the position of transmitter’s beam footprint should be detected and tracked in real-time to perform beam synchronization. Theoretical analysis shows that signal-tonoise ratio (SNR) of the reflected echoes from the observational scene is too low to apply the conventional detection and tracking method. According to the cross-correlation ...

Multistatic radars utilize multiple transmitter and receiver sites to provide several different monostatic and bistatic channels of observation. Multistatic passive and active radar systems can offer many advantages in terms of coverage and accuracy in the estimation of target signal parameters. Unfortunately, their performances are heavily sensitive to the position of receivers and transmitter...