First results on ground targets tracking using UHF passive radars under non line-of-sight conditions

Author

Gomez-del-Hoyo, Pedro ; del-Rey-Maestre, Nerea ; Mata-Moya, David ; Jarabo-Amores, Maria-Pilar ; Martin-de-Nicolas, Jaime

Author_Institution

Signal Theor. & Commun. Dept., Univ. of Alcala, Alcalá de Henares, Spain

fYear

2015

fDate

10-12 June 2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

This paper tackles the evaluation of a Kalman filter-based tracker with real data acquired by a Passive Bistatic Radar (PBR) system. The detection of slow moving targets manoeuvres in ground environment is considered. This radar scenario is characterized by shadowed areas with detection losses due to diffraction phenomena associated with trees, buildings, etc. The application of the designed tracker to real data acquired by a PBR system allows us the study of the detection capabilities to identify tracks in line-of-sight and non line-of-sight areas.

Keywords

Kalman filters; electromagnetic wave diffraction; object detection; passive radar; radar tracking; target tracking; tracking filters; Kalman filter-based tracker; PBR system; UHF passive bistatic radar system; diffraction phenomena; ground target tracking; nonline of sight condition; slow moving target detection; Kalman filters; Radar tracking; Roads; Target tracking; Trajectory;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Signal Processing Symposium (SPSympo), 2015

Conference_Location

Debe

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SPS.2015.7168276

Filename

7168276