ISAR imaging of ground targets with an X-band FMCW Radar system for airport surveillance

Author

Turin, Fabrizio ; Pastina, D. ; Lombardo, P. ; Corucci, Linda

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Eng., Electron. & Telecommun. (DIET), Univ. of Rome La Sapienza, Rome, Italy

fYear

2014

fDate

16-18 June 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Within the European project SOS (“Sensors system for detection and tracking of dangerous materials in order to increase the airport security in indoor landside area”) new solutions for airports´ security are being studied by several European universities and industries. In particular, a collaborative effort is devoted to the development of an imaging mode for the airports´ perimeter surveillance, the results of which will be preliminarily shown in this paper. An X-band frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar for a ISAR imaging mode in the context of an ATR (automatic target recognition) system will be described, and the results of the preliminary tests conducted in a real environment with cooperative targets will be reported and analyzed.

Keywords

CW radar; FM radar; airports; image recognition; object detection; radar imaging; search radar; synthetic aperture radar; ATR; ISAR imaging; ISAR imaging mode; SOS project; X-band FMCW radar system; X-band frequency modulated continuous wave radar; airport surveillance; automatic target recognition; cooperative targets; dangerous materials detection; dangerous materials tracking; ground targets; imaging mode; sensor systems; Airports; Imaging; Radar imaging; Sensors; Surveillance; Target tracking; FMCW; ISAR; airport surveillance;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radar Symposium (IRS), 2014 15th International

Conference_Location

Gdansk

Print_ISBN

978-617-607-552-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IRS.2014.6869307

Filename

6869307