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Thursday, 18 October 2007

08.50 – 10.30 Oral Session 8a: Radar Systems 3
Room: Pentland

Chair: H Rohling, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany
Co-Chair: L Teng, Beijing Institute of Technology, China

   
08.50 – 09.10 Spatial Variant Apodisation on Subsurface Imagery Acquired Along Circular Trajectories
G Thomas, D Flores-Tapia, University of Manitoba, Canada
S Pistorius, CancerCare Manitoba, Canada
   
09.10 – 09.30 Ultra Wideband Forward Scattering Radar: Concept and Prospective
M Cherniakov, M Gashinova, M, Antoniou, L Y Daniel, University of Birmingham, UK
C Hu, Beijing Institute of Technology, China
V Sizov, Moscow Institute of Electronic Technology, Russia
   
09.30 – 09.50 Characterisation of an L-Band Digital Noise Radar
M Trinkle, D Gray, University of Adelaide, Australia
B Ferguson, Tenix Defence, Australia
   
09.50 – 10.10 Results from TerraSAR-X Geometric and Radiometric Calibration
B Bräutigam, M Schwerdt, B Döring, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany
   
10.10 – 10.30 Low Noise Wideband Optical Mixing and Optical Up-Conversion Architecture
A N Sharp, The University of Adelaide, Australia
B D Bates, The University of Adelaide and Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Australia
   
08.50 – 10.30 Oral Session 8b: Environment 2
Room: Fintry

Chair: K Ward, TW Research, UK
Co-Chair: Y Kwag, Korea Aerospace University, Korea

   
08.50 – 09.10 Impact Modelling of Wind Farms on Marine Navigational Radar
L S Rashid, A K Brown, University of Manchester, UK
   
09.10 – 09.30 Windfarm Characteristics and Their Effect on Radar Systems
C A Jackson, BAE Systems Integrated System Technologies, UK
   
09.30 – 09.50 Options for Mitigation of the Effects of Windfarms on Radar Systems
C A Jackson, M M Butler, BAE Systems Integrated System Technologies, UK
   
09.50 – 10.10 Measurement of the Wind Vector Over Sea by an Airborne Radar Altimeter, Which has an Antenna with the Modified Beam Shape
A Nekrasov, Taganrog State University of Radio Engineering, Russia
   
10.10 – 10.30 Reducing Clutter in Airborne Radars Equipped with Electronically Scanned Array Antennas
P S Rose, D W Grieg, Selex Sensors and Airborne Systems Ltd, UK
   
08.50 – 10.30 Poster Session 8c: Passive Radar
Room: Cromdale

Chair: P Fentem, BAE Insyte, UK
Co-Chair: M Lesturgie, ONERA, France

DRM Signals for HF Passive Bistatic Radar
J M Thomas, C J Baker, University College London, UK
H Griffiths, Cranfield University, UK

Passive Radar Detection Using Wireless Networks
H Guo, S Coetzee, D Mason, K Woodbridge, C J Baker, University College London, UK

A Geometrically Based Multipath Channel Models for Passive Radar
A Lauri, R Cardinali, F Colone, P Lombardo, T Bucciarelli, Università di Roma, Italy

Ionospheric Clutter Modelling for VHF Passive Radars Operating at High Latitudes
M Meyer, Michigan Technological University, USA

   
08.50 – 10.30 Poster Session 8d: STAP and ECCM
Room: Cromdale

Chair: S Watts, Thales Aerospace, UK
Co-Chair: J Ender, FGAN, Germany

An Efficient Reduced-Rank STAP based on PASTd Algorithm
D Zhu, M Shen, Z Zhu, Nanjing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics, China

An ECCM Signalling Approach for Deep Fading of Jamming Reflectors
J Akhtar, Norwegian Defence Research Establishment, Norway

Regularisation Methods for Covariance Matrix Estimation in Low Sample Support STAP
B Mulgrew, University of Edinburgh, UK
E Aboutanios, University of New South Wales, Australia

Real Time STAP for UESA Radar
K Bell, H Van Trees, George Mason University, USA
R D Dikeman, C A Moore, Lockheed Martin, USA

Anti-Jamming Method Based on Orthogonal Codes Jittered and Random Initial Phase for SAR
W Li, X Lu, X Da, D Liang, AFUE, China

Study on Sar Jamming Measures
X Wu, D H Dai, X S Wang, National University of Defense Technology, China

   
10.30- 11.00 Refreshments & Exhibition
Room: Cromdale
   
11.00 - 12.40 Oral Session 9a: Target Recognition 2
Room: Pentland

Chair: C J Baker, UCL, UK
Co-Chair: M R Inggs, University of Cape Town, South Africa

   
11.00 - 11.20 Impact of Measurement-to-Track Data Association Errors on RCS-Based Target Classification
L Ehrman, W D Blair, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
   
11.20 - 11.40 Air Target Identification – Concept to Reality
J Chadwick, G L Williams, QinetiQ, UK
   
11.40 - 12.00 On the Application of Pattern Recognition to Identification of Simple Targets Based on Resonance and Polarisation Diversity
F Aldhubaib, N V Shuley, I D Longstaff, University of Queensland, Australia
   
12.00 - 12.20 Pedestrian Detection Based on Automotive Radar
H Rohling, H Ritter, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany
   
12.20 - 12.40 Lateral Velocity Estimation for Automotive Radar Applications
F Fölster, H Rohling, H Ritter, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany
   
11.00 – 12.40 Oral Session 9b: SAR/ISAR 4
Room: Fintry

Chair: M Wicks, AFRL/SNRT, USA
Co-Chair: B Haywood, DSTO, Australia

   
11.00 - 11.20 Interrupted SAR Waveforms for High Interrupt Ratios
J Bruder, R Schneible, Research associates for Defence Conversion Inc, USA
   
11.20 - 11.40 Moving Target Detection for Synthetic Aperture Radar via Shadow Detection
M Jahangir, M Rollason, QinetiQ, UK
   
11.40 - 12.00 A Novel Approach to Residual Video Phase Removal in Spotlight SAR Image Formation
D Zhu, Nanjing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics, China
   
12.00 - 12.20 Constrained Adaptive Beamforming for Electromagnetic Interference Cancellation for a Synthetic Aperture Radar
M Sedehi, D Cristallini, M Bucciarelli, P Lombardo, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, Italy
   
12.40 - 13.40 Lunch & Exhibition
Room: Cromdale
   
13.40 - 15.40 Oral Session 10a: Passive Radar
Room: Pentland

Chair: M Cherniakov, University of Birmingham, UK
Co-Chair: F Colone, Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy

   
13.40 - 14.00 Passive Bistatic Radar (PBR) Radar Demonstrator
C J Baker, D O'Hagan, University College London, UK
F Colone, Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy
H Griffiths, Cranfield University, UK
   
14.00 - 14.20 Developments to a Multiband Passive Radar Demonstrator System
D Gould, P Tittensor, C Sarno, R Pollard, BAE Systems Advanced Technology Centre, UK
   
14.20 - 14.40 Impact of Air Target Altitude and Co-Channel Interference to Coverage Area of GSM and DVB-T Based Passive Radar
M Isohookana, University of Oulu, Finland
   
14.40 - 15.00 The Gauss-Newton Algorithm in Passive Aircraft Tracking Using Doppler and Bearings
N Morrison, R Lord, M R Inggs, University of Cape Town, South Africa
   
15.00 - 15.20 Design and Development of a Signal and Data Processor Test Bed for a Passive Radar in the FM Band
A Benavoli, A Di Lallo, A Farina, R Fulcoli, R Mancinelli, L Timmoneri, Selex SI, Italy
L Chisci, Università di Firenze, Italy
   
15.20 - 15.40 Multipath Cancellation on Reference Antenna for Passive Radar Which Exploits FM Transmission
R Cardinali, Consorzio SESM, Italy
F Colone, P Lombardo, O Crognale, A Cosmi, A Lauri, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy
   
13.40 – 15.40 Oral Session 10b: STAP
Room: Fintry

Chair: F Le Chevalier, Thales Aerospace, France
Co-Chair: R Klemm, Germany
   
13.40 - 14.00 Space-Time Adaptive Processing in the Presence of Non-Gaussian Sea Clutter
T Górski, Military University of Technology, Poland and École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, France
J M Le Caillec, École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, France
A Kawalec, W Czarnecki, Military University of Technology, Poland
   
14.00 - 14.20 Bistatic STAP Using DVB-T Illuminators of Opportunity
J Raout, P Rischette, Research Centre of the French Air Force, France
X Neyt, Royal Military Academy, Belgium
   
14.20 - 14.40 A Rare Event Approach to the Detection of Target-Like Signals in STAP Training Data
T V Cao, DSTO, Australia
D Sinnott, University of Adelaide, Australia
   
14.40 - 15.00 Performance Results for a Knowledge-Aided Clutter Mitigation Architecture
W Melvin, G Showman, Georgia Tech Research Institute, USA
   
15.00 - 15.20 Bistatic JDL-STAP for Ground Moving Target Detection
C Lim, Temasek Laboratories at NTU, Singapore
B Mulgrew, A Aboutanias University of Edinburgh, UK
   
15.20 - 15.40 Robust Radar Detection of Moving Ground Targets with STAP
P G Kealey, D M Carrington, QinetiQ, UK
   
15.40 - 16.00 Chairman’s Closing Remarks
   
16.00 Close of Conference