1. No category

2009 IEEE Radar Conference
Pasadena, CA, USA
4 – 8 May 2009
Pages 1 - 585
IEEE Catalog Number:
ISBN:
CFP09RAD-PRT
978-1-4244-2870-0
TABLE OF CONTENTS
SESSION TU1L-1: RADAR SCIENCE AND APPLICATIONS
The Conformity Coefficient Or How to Explore the Scattering Behaviour from Compact
Polarimetry Mode ...............................................................................................................................................1
M. Truong-Loï, P. Dubois-Fernandez, A. Freeman, E. Pottier
Topographic Relief Compensation on Spaceborne Polarimetric SAR for Forest
Applications .........................................................................................................................................................7
H. Chen, D. G. Goodenough, A. Dyk, G. Hobart, A. Richardson, B. Moa, A. Wilke
Using Satellite Radar Data to Map and Monitor Variations in Great Lakes Ice Cover .............................11
G. A. Leshkevich, S. V. Nghiem
SAR Imagery Applied to the Monitoring of Hyper-Saline Deposits: Death Valley Example
(CA) ....................................................................................................................................................................14
Y. Lasne, P. Paillou, A. Freeman, B. Chapman
Recent Experiments in Ocean Remote Sensing with Bistatic Radar using Navigation
Satellite Signals..................................................................................................................................................20
J. K. Voo, J. L. Garrison, J. S. Haase, T. D. Lulichi
SESSION TU1L-2: MIMO
Ambiguity Function Analysis for the Hybrid MIMO Phased-array Radar ................................................26
D. R. Fuhrmann, J. P. Browning, M. Rangaswamy
Sidelobe Mitigation in MIMO Radar with Multiple Subcarriers .................................................................32
M. A. Haleem, A. Haimovich, R. Blum
System Architectures and Algorithms for Radar Imaging by MIMO-SAR ................................................38
J. H. G. Ender, J. Klare
Beam Steering Techniques For Phased Array Multi-Input-Multi-Output (MIMO) Search
Radars ................................................................................................................................................................44
M. Zatman
Technology Intercepts for the S-APAS Architecture.....................................................................................49
M. LaManna
SESSION TU1L-3: RADAR PHENOMENOLOGY
Analysis of Radar Dismount Signatures via Non-parametric and Parametric Methods............................55
R. G. Raj, V. C. Chen, R. Lipps
An Empirical Sea Clutter Model for Low Grazing Angles............................................................................61
V. Gregers-Hansen, R. Mital
Surface-Based Ducting Due to a Shift in Air Masses off the Coast of Wallops Island,
Virginia ..............................................................................................................................................................66
A. K. Kochhar, J. R. Rottier, A. K. Weaver, R. E. Trepkowski, R. E. Marshall
Rapid Extraction of DoublyCurved Scattering Centers for Automobile Detection in the
Presence of Clutter............................................................................................................................................72
D. F. Fuller, M. A. Saville
Mitigation of the "In Situ" Radar Antennas measurement reflections and multipath of the
System Performance Checks ............................................................................................................................78
J. R. Engesaeth, J. J. Nicolas, I. Balajti
SESSION TU2L-1: EARTH SCIENCE
The Soil Moisture Active and Passive Mission (SMAP): Science and Applications....................................83
E. Entekhabi, P. O'Neill, E. Njoku
CoReH2O - Cold Regions Hydrology High-resolution Observatory............................................................86
H. Rott, D. Cline, C. Duguay, R. Essery, C. Haas, M. Kern, G. Macelloni, E. Malnes, J. Pulliainen,
H. Rebhan, S. Yueh
Scatterometer and ScanSAR Soil Moisture Observations of the Contiguous United States ......................90
C. Pathe, W. Wagner, D. Sabel, Z. Bartalis, M. Doubkova, V. Naeimi
The Tandem-L Mission Proposal: Monitoring Earth's Dynamics with High Resolution
SAR Interferometry ..........................................................................................................................................94
G. Krieger, I. Hajnsek, K. Papathanassiou, M. Eineder, M. Younis, F. De Zan, P. Prats, S. Huber, M.
Werner, H. Fiedler, A. Freeman, P. Rosen, S. Hensley, W. Johson, L. Veilleux, B. Grafmueller, R.
Werninghaus, R. Bamler, A. Moreira
Coastal Wind Field and Sea State Measured by TerraSAR-X....................................................................100
S. Lehner, S. Brusch, X. Li
The Green Sahara: Climate Change, Hydrologic History and Human Occupation .................................103
R. G. Blom, T. G. Farr, J. Feynmann, A. Ruzmaikin, P. Paillou
SESSION TU2L-2: ADAPTIVE PROCESSING
A Simplified Parametric GLRT for STAP Detection...................................................................................107
P. Wang, H. Li, B. Himed
Parameter Estimation Based Coherent Multistatic Processing ..................................................................112
A. Jaffer, B. Evans, M. Rangaswamy
Fast Fully Adaptive Processing: A Multistage STAP Approach.................................................................116
O. Saleh, R. S. Adve, R. J. Riddolls
An Iterative Inverse-Scattering Approach to Distributed Sensing .............................................................122
R. W. Deming, J. T. Parker
Two-Dimensional Adaptive Processing For Ionospheric Clutter Mitigation in High
Frequency Surface Wave Radar....................................................................................................................127
R. J. Riddolls, R. S. Adve
Four-Platform Distributed MIMO Radar Measurements and Imagery....................................................131
P. K. Rennich
SESSION TU2L-3: RADAR PHENOMENOLOGY 2
Detecting Weak Targets in a Speckled Distributed Scene by SAR Reconfiguration ................................137
K. Tomiyasu, R. Scheiber
RFI Study for the SMAP Radar ....................................................................................................................143
S. Chan, M. Spencer
Sostar-X Flight Tests: Statistical Analysis of Avionic GMTI Radar Data .................................................148
A. Montanari, D. Zei
Multi-wavelength Impacts on Coastal Radar Performance During a Sea Breeze.....................................154
R. E. Marshall, J. K. Stapleton
Correlation Properties of UWB Radar Target Impulse Responses ............................................................158
E. Pancera, T. Zwick, W. Wiesbeck
SESSION TU3L-1: PLANETARY SCIENCE
Structure of the Basal Unit of the North Polar Plateau of Mars, from MARSIS ......................................162
M. M. Selvans, O. Aharonson, J. J. Plaut, A. Safaeinili
Numerical Computation of Radar Echoes Measured by MARSIS During Phobos Flybys ......................165
D. Plettemeier, R. Hahnel, S. Helger, A. Safaeinili, J. Plaut, B. Gaskell, R. Orosei, A. Cicchetti, G.
Picardi
Surface Echo Reduction by Clutter Simulation, Application to the Marsis Data .....................................171
A. Herique, W. Kofman, J. Mouginot, C. Grima, A. Safaelini, J. F. Nouvel, C. Eyraud
The Shape of Saturn's Moon Titan From Cassini Radar Altimeter And SAR Monopulse
Observations ....................................................................................................................................................175
H. A. Zebker, S. Hensley, B. Stiles, P. Callahan, Y. Gim, R. Lorenz
Bistatic Radar Probing of Planetary Surfaces..............................................................................................178
R. A. Simpson, G. L. Tyler, M. Pätzold, B. Häusler, S. Asmar
SESSION TU3L-2: BI/MULTISTATIC 1
Enhanced Multistatic Radar Resolution via STC ........................................................................................182
X. Song, S. Zhou, P. Willet
Focusing Bistatic SAR Data in the Wavenumber Domain Using Linearized Weighted LBF ..................188
J. Ding, O. Loffeld, S. Knedlik, H. Nies, A. Ortiz, Y. Wang
Bi-static ISAR Range-doppler Imaging and Resolution Analysis...............................................................194
V. C. Chen, A. des Rosiers, R. Lipps
Multistatic Pulse-Wave Angle-of-Arrival-Assisted Relative Interferometric RADAR.............................199
J. Friedman, T. Schmid, Y. H. Cho
Analysis of Bistatic Tracking Accuracy in Passive Radar...........................................................................204
M. Malanowski, K. Kulpa
SESSION TU3L-3: SAR/ISAR/MTI SYSTEMS
Evolution of Lite-Weight SAR/MTI Technology..........................................................................................210
J. C. Kirk
The CP140 Imaging Radar System AN/APS-508: Architecture and Early Flight Test
Results ..............................................................................................................................................................214
M. M. Goulding, D. R. Stevens, J. Blumling, J. Onarato
Multi-platform ISAR for Flying Formation .................................................................................................218
D. Pastina, M. Bucciarelli, P. Lombardo
A Study of a Potential Venus Radar Topography Mission..........................................................................224
W. T. K. Johnson, R. Jordan, L. Veilleux, R. Hodges, L. Giersch
Synthetic Aperture Radar Moving Target Indication Processing of Along-Track
Monopulse Nonlinear Gotcha Data ...............................................................................................................226
U. Majumder, M. Soumekh, M. Minardi, S. Scarborough, L. Gorham, C. Casteel, M. Judge, J. Kirk
SESSION WE1L-1: SPACEBORNE ATMOSPHERIC RADARS
Next-generation Spaceborne Cloud Profiling Radars..................................................................................232
S. Tanelli, S. L. Durden, E. Im, G. M. Heymsfield, P. Racette, D. O. Starr
The TropSat Mission: An Observatory for Mesoscale Convective System Processes in the
Global Tropics .................................................................................................................................................236
D. G. Long, R. Milliff, E. Rodriguez
Prospects for Geostationary Doppler Weather Radar.................................................................................242
S. Tanelli, H. Fang, S. L. Durden, E. Im, Y. Rahmat-Samii
Concept for a Low Cost, High Efficiency Precipitation Radar System Based on
Ferroelectric Reflectarray Antenna...............................................................................................................246
R. Romanofsky, C. Mueller, C. V. Chandrasekar
The Combined Effect Of Surface Rain And Wind On Scatterometer Observations Of
Surface Roughness ..........................................................................................................................................252
D. E. Weissman, M. A. Bourassa
SESSION WE1L-2: BI/MULTISTATIC 2
MIMO Enabled Multipath Clutter Rank Estimation ..................................................................................257
V. F. Mecca, J. L. Krolik
Developments in the Frequency Diverse Bistatic System ............................................................................263
P. F. Sammartino, C. J. Baker
Bistatic SAR Using Illumination From A Tethered Ground Moving Target Indication
Radar................................................................................................................................................................268
M. Davis, R. Kapfer
Target Detection in High Clutter using Passive Bistatic WiFi Radar ........................................................274
K. Chetty, G. Smith, H. Guo, K. Woodbridge
Waveform Diversity and Knowledge Based Signal Processing in Distributed Radar ..............................279
G. T. Capraro, M. C. Wicks, W. E. Szczepanski
SESSION WE1L-3: SPECIAL APPLICATION RADAR SYSTEMS
Design and Implementation of Long Range Radar Service Life Extension ...............................................285
J. Wang, E. Brookner, P. Cornwell, J. Farr
A Multifrequency Interferometric CW Radar for Vital Signs Detection...................................................291
A. Wiesner
FMCW Radar for Life-sign Detection...........................................................................................................295
L. Anitori, A. de Jong, F. Nennie
Millimeter Wave Radar for Remote Measurement of Vital Signs..............................................................301
D. T. Petkie, C. Benton, E. Bryan
Ku-Band Retrodirective Radar for Ballistic Projectile Detection and Tracking ......................................304
E. R. Brown, E. B. Brown, A. Hartenstein
SESSION WE2L-1: GROUD-BASED WEATHER RADAR SYSTEMS AND
VALIDATION
Short Wavelength Technology and the Potential for Distributed Networks of Small Radar
Systems.............................................................................................................................................................308
D. J. McLaughlin, V. Chandrasekar
Development of Solid-State Weather Radar.................................................................................................311
M. Wada, J. Horikomi, F. Mizutani
Multi-Channel Conversion of the National Weather Radar Testbed Receiver .........................................315
G. E. Crain, M. Yeary, C. Kiddler, A. Zahrai, G. Zhang, R. Doviak, R. Palmer, T. Yu, M. Xue, Y.
Zhang, Q, Xu, P Chilson
Ground Validation of Satellite Measurements of Precipitation with C-band Polarimetric
Radar................................................................................................................................................................320
L. Baldini, E. Gorgucci, V. Romaniello, V. Chandrasekar
Accuracy of Reflectivity Estimated from Profiling Radars.........................................................................324
C. R. Williams
SESSION WE2L-2: WAVEFORM DIVERSITY
A Brief History of Waveform Diversity.........................................................................................................328
M. C. Wicks
Sidelobe Suppression in a Desired Range/Doppler Interval........................................................................334
A. Pezeshki, R. Calderbank, L. L. Scharf
Unimodular Sequence Sets with Good Correlations for MIMO Radar .....................................................339
H. He, P. Stoica, J. Li
MIMO Radar Limitations in Clutter ............................................................................................................345
G. J. Frazer, Y. I. Abramovich, B. A. Johnson
Distributed Aperture OFDM Radar..............................................................................................................350
B. W. Jung, R. S. Adve, J. Chun
SESSION WE2L-3: MILLIMETERWAVE SUBSYSTEMS AND COMPONENTS
Solid State Power Amplifier and Travelling Wave Tube Amplifier Additive Phase Noise
Characterization at Ka-Band Operation.......................................................................................................356
S. M. Haque, D. J. Hoppe, L. W. Epp
High Power Millimeter-Wave Extended Interaction Klystrons for Ground, Airborne and
Space Radars ...................................................................................................................................................360
B. Steer, A. Roitman, P. Horoyski, M. Hyttinen, R. Dobbs, D. Berry
A 35 GHz Two-Bit Amplified Phase-Shifter .................................................................................................363
A. Dadello, A. P. Fattorini, S. J. Mahon, M. G. McCulloch, J. T. Harvey
Painted Styrene Radome for Foreign Objects and Debris Detection Radar in W-band ..........................368
N. Yonemoto, A. Kohmura, M. Matsuzaki
SESSION WE3L-1: SHORT WAVELENGTH SAR SYSTEMS FOR GEOSCIENCE
SENSING
The Tandem-X Mission: Overview and Status.............................................................................................372
G. Krieger, M. Zink, H. Fiedler, I. Hajnsek, M. Younis, S. Huber, M. Bachmann, J. H. Gonzalez, D.
Schulze, J. Boer, M. Werner, A. Moreira
Interferometric Absolute Phase Determination with TerraSAR-X Wideband SAR Data .......................377
R. Brcic, M. Eineder, R. Balmer
Cold Region Hydrology High-resolution Observatory (CoReH2O): a New Microwave
Earth Explorer Core Mission Candidate ......................................................................................................383
F. Hélière, C. C. Lin, F. Fois, M. Kern, A Thompson, P. Bensi
Spatial Resolution Enhancement of Cassini Titan Radar Mapper Data....................................................389
D. G. Long
SESSION WE3L-2: SAR AND INSAR DATA PROCESSING
On the Impact of Propagation Disturbances on SAR Tomography: Analysis and
Compensation ..................................................................................................................................................395
S. Tebaldini, F. Rocca
A Combined Methodology for SAR Interferometric and Stereometric Error Modeling .........................401
S. Hensley
RADARSAT-1 Deformation Time-Series Generation by Using the SBAS-DInSAR
Algorithm.........................................................................................................................................................407
L. Euillades, A. Pepe, P. Berardino, M. Bonano, E. Sansosti, R. Lanari
Detection of Scatterer Multiplicity in Spaceborne SAR Tomography with Array Errors .......................411
F. Lombardini, M. Pardini
Real-time Brute Force SAR Processing.........................................................................................................417
W. J. Vlothuizen, M. Ditzel
SESSION WE3L-3: PROCESSOR HARDWARE AND COMPONENTS
ISAAC - A Case of Highly-Reusable, Highly-Capable Computing and Control Platform
for Radar Applications ...................................................................................................................................421
Y. He, C. Le, J. Zheng, K. Nguyen, D. Bekker
Programmable Radar Signal Processor For A Multi Function Radar.......................................................425
D. Anuradha, P. Barua, A. Singhal, RPS Rathore
Development and Integration of the Aquarius Scatterometer Processor/Control
Electronics for Achieving High Measurement Accuracy.............................................................................430
M. Fischman, A. Freedman, D. McWatters, A. Berkun, C. Cheetham, A. Chu, S. Lee, G. Neumann, M.
Paller, B. Tieu, J. Wirth, C. Wu
Passive Coherent Locator Signal Processor on Ibm Cell Broadband Engine (Cell BE)...........................436
C. Cantini, E. La Rosa, A. Lo Re, A. Di Lallo
SESSION WE4L-1: AIRBORNE AND GROUND BASED SAR SYSTEMS
Development of a FPGA-based High Speed FFT Processor for Wideband Direction of
Arrival Applications........................................................................................................................................442
M. Jamali, J. Downey, N. Wilikins, C. R. Rehm, J. Tipping
Reconfigurable Digitally Scanned Polarimetric L-Band Radar .................................................................446
L. Krnan, R. Rincon
Residual Motion Estimation for UAVSAR: Implications of an Electronically Scanned
Array ................................................................................................................................................................450
S. Hensley, T. Michel, M. Simard, C. Jones, R. Muellerschoen, C. Le, H. Zebker, B. Chapman
Topography-dependent Motion Compensation: Application to UAVSAR Data.......................................455
C. Jones, S. Hensley, T. Michel
A Ground-Based Real-Aperture Radar Instrument for Differential Interferometry...............................461
C. Werner, T. Strozzi, A. Wiesmann, U. Wegmüller
SESSION WE4L-2: SAR ALGORITHMS
Predicted-Wavefront Backprojection for Knowledge-Aided SAR Image Reconstruction.......................465
J. W. Melody
Continuous Phase Corrections Applied to SAR Imagery ............................................................................471
J. Kolman, L. Martin
RELAX-Based Autofocus Algorithm for High-Resolution Strip-Map SAR..............................................476
H. Ghaemi, M. Viberg, M. Galletti, T. Boerner
Image While Scan (IWS): An Adaptive Gabor Spectrum Estimation Approach .....................................482
R. G. Raj, R. Lipps
Time-domain Backprojection for Precise Geodetic Coding of Spaceborne SAR Imagery.......................488
L. J. Harcke
SESSION WE4L-3: RF SUBSYSTEMS AND COMPONENTS
Multiple-Beam Klystron Development at the Naval Research Laboratory ...............................................491
D. K. Abe, B. Cantrell, K. T. Nguyen, D. E. Pershing, E. L. Wright, E. L. Eisen, F. N. Wood, R. E.
Myers, I. A. Chernyavskiy, A. N. Vlasov, B. Levush
A Novel SiGe RFIC Approach Towards Low-Cost S-Band Transmit/Receive Modules..........................496
H. Erkens, R. Wunderlich, S. Heinen
RF Photonic Receiver Front-end Based on Crystalline Whispering Gallery Mode
Resonators........................................................................................................................................................500
A. B. Matsko, V. S. Ilchenko, P. Koonath, J. Byrd, A. A. Savchenkov, D. Seidel, L. Maleki
RF Photonic Signal Processing Components: from High Order Tunable Filters to High
Stability Tunable Oscillators..........................................................................................................................506
A. A. Savchenkov, W. Liang, V. S. Llchenkov, A. B. Matsko, E. Seidel, L. Maleki
Closed Form Expression for Thermal Resistance of a FET Structure .......................................................512
A. M. Darwish, A. Bayba, H. A. Hung
SESSION TH1L-1: BEAM-FORMING RADARS AND SARS
SweepSAR: Beam-forming on Receive using a Reflector-Phased Array Feed Combination
for Spaceborne SAR........................................................................................................................................516
A. Freeman, G. Krieger, P. Rosen, M. Younis, W. T. K. Johson, S. Huber, R. Jordan, A. Moreira
Limitations of Scanning Arrays for Space ....................................................................................................525
D. Lynch
SAR Ambiguities in Skewed Antenna Arrays ..............................................................................................530
M. C. Leifer
FPGA based Digital Beam Forming for Radars...........................................................................................536
R. Taniza, D. Meena, LGM Prakasam
Radar Designs for the DESDynI Mission......................................................................................................541
W. T. K. Johson, P. A. Rosen, S. Hensley, A. Freeman
SESSION TH1L-2: BISAR/ISAR IMAGE PROCESSING
True Amplitude BiSAR Image Reconstruction via Backprojection and Image Domain
Scaling ..............................................................................................................................................................544
C. E. Yarman, B. Yazici
ISAR Image Fusion with Two Separated Aspect Observations..................................................................549
C. Yeh, J. Xu, Y. Peng, X. Wang
An ISAR Imaging Method for Multiple Moving Targets Based on Fractional Fourier
Transformation ...............................................................................................................................................554
Y. Li, Y. Fu, X. Li, L. Li
Clutter Modeling for Bistatic SAR with Phased Array Antenna and Arbitrary Geometry
Configuration ..................................................................................................................................................560
J. Xu, R. Liu, C. Yeh, Z. Yu, Y. Peng, Y. Wang
SESSION TH1L-3: EMERGING RADAR TECHNOLOGY
Waveform Design for Distributed Aperture in Through-the-Wall Radar.................................................565
F. Ahmad, M. G. Amin
A 600 GHz Imaging Radar for Concealed Objects Detection .....................................................................571
T. Bryllert, K. B. Cooper, R. J. Dengler, N. Llombart, G. Chattopadhyay, E. Schlecht, J. Gill, C. Lee,
A. Skalare, I. Mehdi, P. H. Siegel
UWB Radar-based Human Target Tracking ...............................................................................................574
S. Chang, R. Sharan, M. Wolf, N. Mitsumoto, J. W. Burdick
Over-The-Horizon Radars with Multipath-Enabled Super-Resolution Using TimeReversal............................................................................................................................................................580
E. Paek, J. Y. Choe
Global Ice Sheet Mapping Observatory: Airborne Experiments ...............................................................586
K. Jezek, P. Gogineni, X, Wu, E. Rodriguez, F. Rodriguez, A. Freeman
SESSION TH2L-1: POLARIMETRIC AND LONGER WAVELENGTH SAR
SYSTEMS
DESDynI Adopts Hybrid Polarity SAR Architecture..................................................................................590
R. K. Raney
On the Design of Spaceborne Polarimetric SARs.........................................................................................594
A. Freeman
BIOMASS: A P-Band SAR Earth Explorer Core Mission Candidate .......................................................598
F. Hélière, C. C. Lin, F. Fois, M. Davidson, A. Thompson, P. Bensi
The New Onera Multispectral Airborne SAR System in 2009....................................................................604
G. Bonin, P. Dubois-Fernandez, P. D. O. Ruault du Plessis, S. Angelliaume, H. Cantalloube, H.
Oriot, C. Coulombeix, RIM
Updating GeoSAR for Full-pol Interferometric Capability ........................................................................607
J. J. Reis, M. A. Williams, S. Hensley, D. Woods
SESSION TH2L-2: GMTI/DETECTION
Directional Moving Target Indication for Civil Traffic Monitoring Using Single Channel
SAR...................................................................................................................................................................613
P. A. C. Marques
Optimized Detection of Spatially Extended Fixed Objects in Clutter ........................................................617
M. C. Wicks, Y. Zhang
Using Shaped Phase-thresholds for Detecting Moving Targets in Multiple-Channel SAR......................623
P. K. Sanyal, D. M. Zasada, R. P. Perry, D. W. Winters
Performance Deterioration of the Matched Filter Detector in Partially Correlated Texture
Based Compound-Gaussian Clutter Environment.......................................................................................628
L. P. Roy, R. V. R. Kumar
SESSION TH2L-3: ANTENNA TECHNOLOGY
Characterization of a 76 GHz Antenna for Personnel Avoidance Radar for Robotics
Vehicles ............................................................................................................................................................633
A. I. Zaghloul, S. J. Weiss, T. K. Anthony
A Low Sidelobe Ka-Band Slot Array Antenna for the Mars Science Lab Terminal Descent
Sensor ...............................................................................................................................................................639
T. Brunasso, M. Guler, D. Nguyen
Full Polarimetric GPR Antenna System Aboard the ExoMars Rover .......................................................642
D. Plettemeier, V. Ciarletti, S. Hamran, C. Corbel, P. Cais, W. Benedix, K. Wolf, S. Linke, S.
Röddecke
Fast Phase-Only Pattern Nulling for Large Phased Array Antennas.........................................................648
D. A. Day
A Metamaterial Frequency-Selective Superstrate for Phased-Array Applications ..................................652
F. Bayatpur, K. Sarabandi
SESSION TH3L-1: SAR SCATTEROMETERS
The Soil Moisture Active/passive (SMAP) Mission Radar: A Novel Conically Scanning
SAR...................................................................................................................................................................656
M. Spencer, S. Chan, L. Veilleux, K. Wheeler
SMAP's Radar OBP Algorithm Development..............................................................................................660
C. Le, M. W. Spencer, L. Veilleux, S. Chan
A Science Data System Approach For The SMAP Mission.........................................................................664
D. Woollard, O. Kwoun, T. Bicknell, R. West, K. Leung
Architecture and Design of the Aquarius Instrument for RF and Thermal Stability...............................670
D. McWatters, A. Freedman, R. Becker, J. Granger, P. Yates, B. Franklin, J. Borders, S. Yueh, M.
Spencer, D. Price, M. Fischman, C. Cheetham, M. Paller, F. Pellerano, J. Piepmeier
A Scatterometer for XOVWM, the Extended Ocean Vector Winds Mission ............................................674
E. Rodriguez, R. W. Gaston, S. L. Durden, B. Stiles, M. Spencer, L. Veilleux, R. Hughes, D. E.
Fernandez, S. Chan, S. Veleva, R. S. Dunbar
SESSION TH3L-2: ESTIMATION
Estimation of Building Heights From Detected Dual-Aspect VHR SAR Imagery Using an
Iterative Simulation and Matching Procedure in Combination with Functional Analysis ......................678
D. Brunner, G. Lemoine, L. Bruzzone
Target Height Finding in Narrowband Ground-Based 3D Surveillance Radar Using
Beamspace Approach......................................................................................................................................684
T. Shu, X. Liu, W. Yu
Digital Beamforming of Multiple Simultaneous Beams for Improved Target Search..............................690
K. Yu
MMSE Recursive Estimation of High Phase-Noise that is Wiener Non-Stationary..................................695
Y. Su, K. T. Wong, K. R. Ho
Reconstruction of Constant Envelope Signals with Given Fourier Transform Magnitude......................700
S. U. Pillai, K. Y. Li, H. Beyer
SESSION TH3L-3: WAVEFORM ANALYSIS/DESIGN
CPM-Based Radar Waveforms for Efficiently Bandlimiting a Transmitted Spectrum ...........................704
S. Blunt, M. Cook, E. Perrins, J. de Graaf
Gain-Constrained Adaptive Pulse Compression via an MVDR Framework.............................................710
T. Higgins, S. D. Blunt, K. Gerlach
Spatial, Temporal, and Spectral Aspects of Radar Data .............................................................................716
M. Cheney, L. Wang, B. Borden
Derivation of the Frequency Mismatch Probability in Linear FMCW Radar based on
Target Distribution .........................................................................................................................................721
M. Reiher, B. Yang
Extending the Frequency Matching in Linear FMCW Radar Exploiting Extreme
Frequencies ......................................................................................................................................................727
M. Reiher, B. Yang
SESSION TH4L-1: PROCESSING
Super-Resolution Processing Technique for Vector Sensors.......................................................................733
D. Kasilingam, D. Schmidlin, P. Pacheco
A Novel Approach to OFDM Radar Processing...........................................................................................737
C. Sturm, E. Pancera, T. Zwick, W. Wiesbeck
Cancellation of Range Ambiguities with Block Coding Techniques...........................................................741
J. Akhtar
SESSION TH4L-2: SYSTEM PERFORMANCE
Phase Spectrum of Signals in Ground Penetrating Radar Applications....................................................747
V. G. Sugak, A. V. Sugak
GMES Sentinel-1 FDBAQ Performance Analysis........................................................................................752
P. Snoeij, E. Attema, A. M. Guarnieri, F. Rocca
Location of First-Order Sea Echo for HFSWR with Image Feature Information ....................................758
Y. Li, Q. Yang, N. Zhang
SESSION WE1P-211: RADAR SCIENCE AND SYSTEMS
Exploring the Martian Subsurface of Athabasca Using MARSIS Radar Data: Testing the
Volcanic and Fluvial Hypotheses for the Origin of the Morphology ..........................................................763
J. Boisson, E. Heggy, A. Frigeri, W. M. Farrell, G. Picardi, S. M. Clifford, J. J. Plaut, N. Putzig, R.
Orosei
Estimation of Freeze-Thaw Dates of a High Latitude Small Lake Using Statistical Analysis
of SAR Images .................................................................................................................................................768
A. V. Uppuluri, R. J. Jost, J. H. Gunther, M. A. White
Application of Passive Microwave Data in Estimating Freeze-Thaw Dates of a Small Lake...................774
A. V. Uppuluri, R. J. Jost, C. Luecke, M. A. White
Avalanche Flow Imaging RADAR.................................................................................................................779
L. Wang, P. Brennan
Lagrangian Applications of the Coastal Surface Currents Using High-frequency Radar in
California .........................................................................................................................................................783
S. Y. Kim, E. J. Terrill
The Ultra High Resolution QuikSCAT Product...........................................................................................788
B. A. Williams, M. P. Owen, D. G. Long
Rainfall Observation with High Resolution Using Ku-band Broad Band Radar......................................794
E. Yoshikawa, Y. Nakamura, T. Morimoto, T. Ushio, Z. Kawasaki, T. Nishida, T. Saito, T. Mega, N.
Sakazume, K. Imai
Simultaneous Observations of a Tropical Cyclone from Dual-pol TerraSAR-X and
Ground-based Weather Radar ......................................................................................................................799
J. Fritz, V. Chandrasekar
Combining a Rain Microphysical Model and Observations: Implications for Radar
Rainfall Estimation .........................................................................................................................................805
O. P. Prat, A. P. Barros
From AESA Radar To Digital Radar For Surface-Based Applications.....................................................809
O. Adrian
A New Approach For Height Finding In 2-D Search Radars .....................................................................814
A. Mahdavi, A. Moqiseh, M. M. Nayebi
Multi-Rate Convolution for LFM and NLFM..............................................................................................819
M. Farshchian, G. E. Coxson
Wideband OFDM System for Radar and Communications........................................................................824
D. Garmatyuk, J. Schuerger, K. Kauffman, S. Spalding
Improving the Radar Detection Range of Low Flying Aircraft in Clutter with UltraWidband Short Pulses and Active Side Lobe Reduction .............................................................................830
R. B. Hartmann, J. R. Bray
IRF Analysis Considering Clutter Background for High Resolution SAR Image
Qualification ....................................................................................................................................................834
C. H. Jung, T. B. Oh, S. H. Song, Y. K. Kwag
Near Real-time Adaptive Radar Processing Using Analog Dithers ............................................................838
P. G. Vouras, T. D. Tran
On Interference Immunity of Angle Tracking Systems Under Conditions of Interference
Distorting Location Characteristic ................................................................................................................841
E. Markin
Ground Moving Target Displacement Compensation in the DPCA based SAR-GMTI
System ..............................................................................................................................................................847
J. H. Jung, J. S. Jung, C. H. Jung, Y. K. Kwag
Analysis of the Reliability of the Double Bounce Scattering Mechanism for Detecting
Buildings in VHR SAR Images ......................................................................................................................851
D. Brunner, L. Bruzzone, A. Ferro, G. Lemoine
Radar Cross-Section Modeling of Marine Vessels in Practical Oceanic Environments for
High-Frequency Surface-Wave Radar..........................................................................................................857
S. K. Podilchak, H. Leong, R. Solomon, Y. M. M. Antar
Simulation of High Range-Resolution Profiles of Humans Behind Walls..................................................863
S. S. Ram, C. Christianson, H. Ling
SESSION WE2P-211: SAR/ISAR/MTI ALGORITHMS AND PROCESSING
Response of Polar Format Algorithm to Moving Target with Consideration of Wavefront
Curvature.........................................................................................................................................................867
X. Mao, D. Zhu, L. Wang, Z. Zhu
Nonlinear Classifier Combination for a Maritime Target Recognition Task ............................................873
C. Pilcher, A. Khotanzad
Application of the Frequency-domain Synthetic Bandwidth Approach in Polar Format
Algorithm.........................................................................................................................................................878
X. Nie, D. Zhu, X. Mao, L. Wang, Z. Zhu
Rotating Velocity Estimation for ISAR Targets via Radon Detection of Lines.........................................883
C. Yeh, J. Xu, Y. Peng, X. Wang
The Application of the Principle of Chirp Scaling in Processing Stepped Chirps in
Spotlight SAR ..................................................................................................................................................887
X. Nie, D. Zhu, X. Mao, L. Wang, Z. Zhu
Application of AdaBoost in Polarimetric SAR Image Classification..........................................................892
R. Min, X. Yang, Z. Zhao
Analysis of the InSAR Flattening Errors and Their Influence on DEM Reconstruction .........................896
Z. Xiang, K. Wang, X. Liu, W. Yu
Man-made Object Classification in SAR Images Using 2-D Cepstrum .....................................................902
A. Eryildririm, A. E. Cetin
InSAR Phase Unwrapping based on Extended Kalman Filtering ..............................................................906
B. Osmanoglu, S. Wdowinski, T. H. Dixon, J. Biggs
An Approach to Ground Moving Target Indication (GMTI) Using Multiple Resolutions of
the Clutter Covariance Matrix.......................................................................................................................910
G. A. Akers, J. M. Stiles
GMTI Tracking Improved by 18 dB using Cognitive Algorithm ...............................................................915
L. Perlovsky
Resolution-fusion for LASAR based on DWT..............................................................................................918
Q. Wenyuan, Z. Xiaoling
Resolution Enhancement in SPECAN Algorithm for SAR Image Reconstruction Using
APES ................................................................................................................................................................923
S. Hamidi, M. A. Masnadi-Shirazi
Fast Detection of Moving Targets by Focusing in UWB Low Frequency SAR .........................................927
V. T. Vu, T. K. Sjögren, M. I. Pettersson
SESSION TH1P-211: RADAR TECHNOLOGIES
A New Method of Scanning Angles Screening of Liquid Crystal Phased Array Component ..................932
L. Kong, Y. Zhu, J. Yang
Picosecond Pulse Generation on CMOS: Design Beyond Transistor Limits .............................................935
W. Lee, F. Amoozegar, E. Afshari
A CMOS Ultra-Wideband Impulse Generator for 22-29 GHz Automotive Radar
Application.......................................................................................................................................................941
J. Li, M. Lu, S. Jung, K. Min
Novel Architecture for Hardware Efficient FPGA Implementation of Real Time
Configurable "Variable Point FFT" Using NIOS II....................................................................................945
V. Chandrakanth, N. Wasim, J. Paramananda, K. Ramachandra
A New Multi-beam Forming Method for Large Array................................................................................949
W. Wen-Chang, L. Chun-Jing, L. Feng, W. Wen-Chang, L. Lei
A Transmitting Wideband DBF Algorithm Based On Time-domain Filter ..............................................953
X. Wei, X. Jian
Frequency Diverse Array: Simulation and Design.......................................................................................959
J. Huang, K. Tong, K. Woodbridge, C. Baker
Multimode Antenna Feed System for an X-Band Monopulse Radar .........................................................963
A. M. El-Tager, H. N. Ahmad, M. M. Darwish
Block Least Mean Squares Processing of Noise Radar Waveforms ...........................................................967
M. Meller, S. Tujaka
Ellipse-Cross-Localization Accuracy Analysis of Through-the-Wall Radar .............................................973
S. Jia, L. Kong, B. Liu
A New Approach for Target Localization of Through-the-Wall Radar with Unknown
Walls.................................................................................................................................................................977
S. Jia, L. Kong, Y. Jia
Three-Dimensional Human Imaging for Through-the-Wall Radar ...........................................................981
L. Kong, G. Cui, X. Yang, J. Yang
STAP Performance Analysis for MIMO Radar with Waveform Diversity ...............................................985
G. Wang, Y. Lu, J. Sun
MIMO Radar Angle-range-doppler Imaging ...............................................................................................991
W. Roberts, J. Li, P. Stoica, T. Yardibi, F. A. Sadjadi
Experiment Results on "one-active" LASAR ...............................................................................................997
S. Jun, Z. Xiaoling, Y. Jianyu
Bistatic Forward-looking SAR: Theory and Challenges ...........................................................................1001
J. Wu, J. Yang, Y. Huang, H. Yang, H. Wang
Multi-Carrier Radar Waveform Schemes for Range and Doppler Processing .......................................1005
R. F. Tigrek, W. J. A. de Heij, P. van Genderen
An Algorithm for UWB Radar-based Human Detection...........................................................................1010
S. Chang, N. Mitsumoto, J. W. Burdick
Circuit Level Analysis of Analog Signal Processing based MIMO Radar System ..................................1016
M. Lee, S. An, S. M. Lee, S. Suh, K. Lim, J. Laskar
SESSION TH2P-211: SIGNAL AND DATA PROCESSING
A Tracking Approach Based On Dynamic Programming Track-Before-Detect.....................................1020
W. Yi, L. Kong, J. Yang, X. Deng
A New Radix-N Resolution-fusion Method for LASAR ............................................................................1024
Z. Xiaoling, S. Jun, Y. Jianyu
MCMC-based Iterative Method for Mixed Spectrum Estimation............................................................1029
G. Liu, Z. Su, R. Wu, Y. Peng
Suppression of Anomalous Clutter Caused by Evaporation Duct Propagation......................................1033
R. Guo, G. Liu, Y. Huang, M. Li, Y. Ni
A Coherent Radon Transform for Small Target Detection.......................................................................1036
J. Carretero-Moya, J. Gismero-Menoya, A. Asensio-López, Á. Blanco-del-Campo
Adaptive Digital Beamforming for Super-Resolution Angle Estimation in Jamming ............................1040
K. Yu
Computation of QAM Radar Transmit Signals with low Autocorrelation Side lobes............................1044
J. Jenshak, J. Stiles
Performance of Random OFDM Radar Signals in Deception Jamming Scenarios ................................1049
J. Schuerger, D. Garmatyuk
Spatial Compressive Sensing Approach For Field Directionality Estimation .........................................1055
I. Bilik
A Novel W-MUSIC Algorithm for GPR Target Detection in Noisy and Distorted Signals....................1060
W. Jiang, S. Pennock, P. Shepherd
Multistatic Scattering from Moving Targets in Multipath Environments...............................................1066
R. Linnehan, J. Schindler
Time-Frequency Entropy of Hilbert-Huang Transformation for Detecting Weak Target in
Sea Clutter .....................................................................................................................................................1072
J. Guan, J. Zhang, N. Liu, B. Li
Fractal-Based Variable Step-Size Least Mean Square Algorithm for Radar Target
Detection in Sea Clutter................................................................................................................................1077
N. Liu, Z. Che, J. Guan, J. Zhang
On the Optimality of Detectors Defined Over The Ambiguity Plane .......................................................1082
C. Candan
Enhanced DOA Visibility of Correlated Sources for Multistatic Shipborne Surface Wave
Radar..............................................................................................................................................................1087
B. Li, B. Xu, Y. Yuan
Mismatched Filters for Frank Polyphase Codes via Sidelobe Inversion..................................................1092
E. A. De Roux Fuentes, A. T. Fam
Author Index