The scattering characteristics of a phased array depends on its feed network. The variation of scattered fields within the feed network affects the antenna mode scattering. In this paper, an attempt is made to determine the radar cross section (RCS) of a planar array with parallel-feed network. The scattered field of the array is obtained by following the path of the signals through the antenna...

This paper proposes novel techniques for scheduling radar dwells in phased array radar systems. In order to handle complex physical characteristics such as dwell interleaving, transmitting duty cycle constraint, and energy constraint, we propose a notion of schedulability envelope. The schedulability envelope designed offline hides the details of complex radar dwell scheduling and provides a si...

The Air Force Office of Scientific Research supported the research on MIMO radar carried out at the New Jersey Institute of Technology during the period from April 2009 to November 2011 under the agreement number FA9550-09-1-0303. The purpose of this report is to summarize the proceedings and findings of the studies supported by this agreement. The report addresses two broad topics: (i) perform...

In this chapter we describe some of the ideas being pursued in sensor scheduling as they apply to radar. A modern phased-array pulseDoppler radar has several different parameters available for scheduling: waveform, beam-shape, beam direction, pulse repetition interval, etc. Choice of different values for these parameters provides different transmit modes for the radar and these modes in turn pr...

Preamble This is the final report to Lockheed Martin on the requirements for a phased array weather radar. Discussed herein are those meteorological requirements that need to be met by weather radars having either reflector type antennas or active phased array elements. These requirements impact the design of the antenna, the transmitter-receiver, and signal processor. Justifications for these ...

Employing the autoregressive (AR) technique and the principle of displaced phase centre antenna (DPCA) we construct an optimum adaptive DPCA processor for moving target detection from airborne phased arrary radar data collected under nonDPCA conditions. It is fundamentally different from the existing adaptive DPCA which is not optimum. The number of range samples it needs to estimate its parame...

A number of methods have been developed to analyze the response of the linear phased array radar. These perform remarkably well when the number of sources is known, but in cases where a determination of this number is required, problems are often encountered. These problems can be resolved by a Bayesian approach. Here, a linear phased-array consisting of equally spaced elements is considered. A...

Introduction: Understanding the relationship between ocean surface waves and the radar backscatter they generate is key to the development of new radar-based techniques to measure ocean parameters, such as wave height and current speed and direction, of importance to both the Navy and the civilian sector. This knowledge is also needed to improve the Navy’s ability to distinguish between signals...

Recently many studies have been done on different issues of using multiple antennas at transmit and receive sides of a radar system in a MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output) configuration. In addition, for the purpose of electronic warfare, the utilization of available signals of the environment to detect the targets has gained considerable attention in recent years. Such passive radars use th...