PHD extended target tracking using an incoherent X-band radar: Preliminary real-world experimental results

X-band radar systems represent a flexible and low-cost tool for ship detection and tracking. These systems suffer the interference of the sea-clutter but at the same time they can provide high measurement resolutions, both in space and time. Such features offer the opportunity to get accurate information about the target´s state and shape. Accordingly, here we exploit an extended target tracking methodology based on the popular Probability Hypothesis Density to get information about the targets observed in an actual X-band radar dataset. For each target track we estimate the target´s position, velocity and acceleration, as well as its size and the expected number of radar returns.