PBR activity at INFOCOM: Adaptive processing techniques and experimental results

The paper describes the results achieved at the INFOCOM Department of the University of Rome ldquoLa Sapienzardquo on passive bistatic radar (PBR). The developed adaptive signal processing techniques are introduced for: improved disturbance cancellation, multipath removal, and multifrequency target detection. The development of experimental wide-band PBR prototypes is described, as opposed to single frequency channel PBR systems, giving special attention to the system design guidelines and test procedures. The experimental results achieved using the wide-band PBR prototypes are shown, there including the demonstration of effectiveness of the techniques above. The results are shown to be largely consistent with live air traffic control registrations.