A multifrequency HF-VHF radar system for aircraft identification

Author

Barès, Christophe ; Brousseau, Christian ; Bourdillon, Alain

Author_Institution

IETR, Rennes I Univ., France

fYear

2005

fDate

9-12 May 2005

Firstpage

478

Lastpage

482

Abstract

MOSAR is a multifrequency and multipolarization radar system used for analysis of aircraft radar cross section by means of measurements in the low VHF frequency band (20-80 MHz). At first, basic principles of this project are presented and technical choices are explained. After extraction of radar cross sections (RCS) from the MOSAR data, a target identification algorithm, based on a comparison with a numerical database containing RCS of commercial aircraft, is applied to measurements. The influence of signal to noise ratio (SNR) and flight level is evaluated.

Keywords

aircraft; identification; radar cross-sections; radar signal processing; radar target recognition; 20 to 80 MHz; VHF frequency band; aircraft identification; aircraft radar cross section; flight level; multifrequency HF-VHF radar system; multipolarization radar system; signal to noise ratio; target identification algorithm; target recognition; Airborne radar; Databases; Frequency measurement; Military aircraft; Polarization; Radar antennas; Radar cross section; Radar measurements; Space vector pulse width modulation; Target recognition;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radar Conference, 2005 IEEE International

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8881-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RADAR.2005.1435873

Filename

1435873