River traffic monitoring with UHF passive bistatic radar in clutter-rich environment

Author

Xianrong Wan ; Jianxin Yi ; Hui Tang ; Hengyu Ke

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electron. Inf., Wuhan Univ., Wuhan, China

fYear

2012

fDate

22-26 Oct. 2012

Firstpage

595

Lastpage

599

Abstract

Passive bistatic radar (PBR) systems, which using existing commercial signals as the illuminators of opportunity, is an emerging technology in new radar systems. In this paper we investigate the feasibility of using PBR for ship detection. The challenges caused by the complex propagation environment are first described. Then corresponding techniques are introduced to handle these problems. Preliminary experiment results using CMMB-based PBR are discussed, demonstrating the potential and prospects of using UHF PBR for river traffic control.

Keywords

UHF measurement; digital multimedia broadcasting; mobile radio; passive radar; radar clutter; radiowave propagation; rivers; ships; CMMB-based PBR; China mobile multimedia broadcasting; PBR system; UHF PBR; UHF passive bistatic radar system; clutter-rich environment; complex propagation environment; illuminators; radar systems; river traffic control; river traffic monitoring; ship detection; Clutter; Doppler effect; Marine vehicles; Passive radar; Receivers; Rivers; Surveillance;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas, Propagation & EM Theory (ISAPE), 2012 10th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Xian

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1799-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISAPE.2012.6408841

Filename

6408841