Radar Perception for Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: A Survey

The advent of consumer and industrial Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), commonly referred to as drones, has opened business opportunities in many fields, including logistics, smart agriculture, inspection, surveillance, and construction. In addition, the autonomous operations of UAVs reduce risks by minimizing the time spent by human workers...

Performance Analysis of the Wind Field Estimation for a Very Fast Scanning Weather Radar

The performance and limitations of the Doppler processing of the scattered signals from extended meteorological objects (precipitation) are analysed in the case of radar with fast azimuthal scanning. The classical method of the Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) has been applied to simulated weather radar signals to estimate the Doppler velocity...

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...

Contrast enhancement for depolarizing radar targets