• 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