Precipitation Doppler Spectrum Reconstruction With Gaussian Process Prior

The challenge of reconstructing the Doppler spectrum of a precipitation-like event observed by a fast-scanning weather radar is addressed. A novel method is proposed where the echo sequence in time is assumed to be a complex Gaussian process with a known covariance structure. It is a two-step approach where the first step is the estimation of...

Single-Pulse Estimation of Target Velocity on Planar Arrays

Doppler velocity estimation in pulse-Doppler radar is done by evaluating the target returns of bursts of pulses. While this provides convenience and accuracy, it requires multiple pulses. In adaptive and cognitive radar systems, the ability to adapt on consecutive pulses, instead of bursts, brings potential performance benefits. Hence, with...

Radar micro-Doppler of Wind Turbines: Low-Frequency Polarimetric Extension of Simplified Analytical Model

A simplified polarimetric model for radar signal scattering on wind turbines (WT) is proposed, which can be used for interpretation of observation in time and Doppler domains. This model uses representation of real WT as slowly rotating linear wire structures. The earlier proposed model has been extended to more general cases of WT with...

Exploiting range migration for unambiguous velocity measurements

One of the most striking challenges that radar designers have to deal with, when developing new doppler systems, is to overcome the difficulty of working with ambiguous velocities. Even using high PRF’s, target’s velocities become ambiguous because wavelengths are getting shorter. This article tries to depict an idea of becoming unambiguous in...