DocumentCode
526212
Title
Cargo ship RCS estimation based on HF radar measurements
Author
Dzvonkovskaya, Anna ; Rohling, Hermann
Author_Institution
Inst. of Telecommun., Hamburg Univ. of Technol. (TUHH), Hamburg, Germany
fYear
2010
fDate
16-18 June 2010
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
4
Abstract
High-Frequency (HF) radars are operated in the 3–30 MHz frequency band. For oceanographic applications low transmit power HF radar systems have been developed, which use surface electromagnetic wave propagation along the salty ocean surface. The WERA HF radar system transmits a power of 30 Watts but achieves detection ranges up to 200 km. Hence the radar system can be used for many applications in coastal monitoring. The measured radar data were analyzed together with simultaneously available Automatic Identification System (AIS) information, which shows current ship position, speed, course and type. This paper presents the target reflectivity measurements as signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) to estimate the radar cross section (RCS) of cargo ships.
Keywords
Marine vehicles; Radar antennas; Radar cross section; Radar detection; Radar tracking; Sea measurements; HF radar; RCS; cargo; detection; tracking;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Radar Symposium (IRS), 2010 11th International
Conference_Location
Vilnius, Lithuania
ISSN
2155-5754
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-5613-0
Type
conf
Filename
5547445
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