Measurement and analysis of clutter signal from GSM/DCS-based passive radar

Author

De Maio, Antonio ; Foglia, Goffredo ; Pasquino, Nicola ; Vadursi, Michele

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Telecommun. Eng., Univ. of Naples Federico II, Naples

fYear

2008

fDate

26-30 May 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Passive radars are not at all new to the radar community though they lately raised interest among researchers for some specific features that make them more appealing than classic active radar systems. In fact, having the TX and RX located at two different positions, and the adoption of signals carrying other kinds of information such as GSM (either classical or the 1800/1900 MHz version) or FM modulated carriers, makes passive radar virtually undetectable and economically advantageous. In the paper a measurement system used to characterize the clutter from a GSM/DCS-based passive radar is presented. The main objective is to study the statistical properties of the clutter signal and to find a theoretical model fitting the measured clutter data.

Keywords

FM radar; cellular radio; passive radar; radar clutter; FM modulated carrier; GSM/DCS-based passive radar; classic active radar systems; measurement system; signal clutter; statistical properties; Antenna measurements; Attenuation measurement; Clutter; Current measurement; Directive antennas; GSM; Passive radar; Radar detection; Radio frequency; Signal analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radar Conference, 2008. RADAR '08. IEEE

Conference_Location

Rome

ISSN

1097-5659

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1538-0

Electronic_ISBN

1097-5659

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RADAR.2008.4721052

Filename

4721052