Aircraft target measurements using A GSM-based passive radar

Author

Sun, Hongbo ; Tan, Danny K P ; Lu, Yilong

Author_Institution

Temasek Labs., Nanyang Technol. Univ., Singapore

fYear

2008

fDate

26-30 May 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Passive radar using GSM cellular mobile communication signal had been demonstrated to be feasible for short-range moving target measurements. This paper presents some new results of aircraft measurements with enhanced performance. It is shown that the operation range of GSM-based passive radar can be substantially larger than the coverage of one normal base station cell that is allocated for mobile communication service. In addition, based on the signals received by passive radar, the target RCS is estimated and a reliable performance prediction is performed for different operating conditions.

Keywords

airborne radar; aircraft communication; cellular radio; passive radar; radar cross-sections; radar signal processing; GSM-based passive radar; aircraft target measurement; base station; cellular mobile communication signal processing; radar cross-section; target RCS; Aircraft navigation; Antenna arrays; Broadband antennas; Digital video broadcasting; GSM; Mobile communication; Passive radar; Radar antennas; Sea measurements; TV; Aircraft target; Global System for Mobile communication (GSM); Passive radar;

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RADAR.2008.4721053

Filename

4721053