Transmit waveform selection is essential to improve the performance of a polarimetric multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar system. In this paper, an information theoretic criterion based method is proposed to select the polarization waveforms of the transmit array. The design criterion is to minimize the mutual information (MI) between the radar return signal at two adjacent coherent pro...

A phased array radar has the ability to rapidly and adaptively position beams and adjust dwell times, thus enabling a single radar to perform multiple functions, such as surveillance, tracking and fire control. A radar resource manager prioritises and schedules tasks from the various functions to best use available resources. Networked phased array radars that are connected by a communication c...

The progression of phased array weather observations, research, and planning over the past decade has led to significant advances in development efforts for future weather radar technologies. However, numerous challenges still remain for large-scale deployment. The eventual goal for phased array weather radar technology includes the use of active arrays, where each element would have its own tr...

The modulated scattering antenna array (MSAA) is composed of one normal antenna element and several modulated scattering elements (MSEs). In this report, a 2-element MSAA is used as the receiving antenna in 2 × 2 multiple input multiple output (MIMO) system. MIMO performance of MSAA with various array spacing is measured to investigate the relation between the array spacing and the MIMO perform...

The S-band Phased Array Radar (PAR) at the National Weather Radar Testbed (NWRT) in Norman, Oklahoma can adaptively scan multiple regions of interest and provide rapidly updated weather observations by electronically beam steering. This capability allows providing fast updates of weather information with high statistical accuracy with scanning strategy termed beam multiplexing ([Yu et al., 2007...