DocumentCode
544159
Title
Spatial filtering and equalization for SSR signal detection in a multipath environment
Author
Reck, Christoph ; Reuther, Max S. ; Berold, Ulrich ; Schmidt, Lorenz-Peter
Author_Institution
Dept. for High Freq. Technol., Univ. of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany
fYear
2011
fDate
14-16 March 2011
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
4
Abstract
Detection of Secondary Surveillance Radar (SSR) signals is highly error prone in scenarios where multipath propagation and transponder interference is involved. The proposed method largely improves this situation by iteratively combining smart antenna and classical equalization approaches. A large dataset of SSR replies, recorded at problematic sites of Frankfurt Airport by a multichannel receiver is used for verification.
Keywords
adaptive antenna arrays; electromagnetic interference; equalisers; filtering theory; radar detection; search radar; transponders; SSR signal detection; equalization; multipath environment; multipath propagation; secondary surveillance radar; smart antenna; spatial filtering; transponder interference; Airports; Antennas; Channel estimation; Estimation; Interference; Joints; Transponders; air traffic control; aircraft communication; antenna arrays; multipath channels;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Microwave Conference (GeMIC), 2011 German
Conference_Location
Darmstadt
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-9225-1
Electronic_ISBN
978-3-9812668-3-2
Type
conf
Filename
5760784
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