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Catching the high altitude invisible by satellite-based forward scatter PCL

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This paper presents a feasibility study on using satellite signal for passive radar application. Our focus is on utilizing geostationary Earth orbit satellite signal with suitable properties, like Inmarsat. Then, a new method of detection for passive coherent location using adaptive filter weights variation model is presented. To evaluate the performance, three different scenarios including a low Earth orbit satellite, a space shuttle, and a high-altitude aircraft as the targets of interest are considered. In addition to being covert, it will be shown that using such passive radar system, we can benefit the forward scatter enhancement, which enables us to detect such high-altitude targets that are normally invisible to radar systems. At last, the performance of the proposed method is compared with that of traditional methods. The analysis reveals that the proposed method has higher detection performance compared to the traditional detection methods in passive radars.

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Notes

  1. Global positioning system.

  2. Global system for mobile communications.

  3. Forward scatter passive coherent location.

  4. Direct path interference.

  5. Equivalent isotropically radiated power.

  6. Medium Earth orbit.

  7. Note that most of recent digital communication systems use OFDM schemes.

  8. Normalized least mean squares filter.

  9. Recursive least squares.

  10. Adaptive filter weights.

  11. Note that there is no need to DPI cacellation in AFW.

  12. e.g., its noisy nature which results in high processing gain.

  13. Digital video broadcasting-terrestrial.

  14. Multiple input multiple output.

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  1. Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

    Mojtaba Radmard, Siavash Bayat & Mohammad Mahdi Nayebi

  2. VP Industry Relations, IEEE BoG AESS, Rome, Italy

    Alfonso Farina

  3. Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran

    Soleiman Hajsadeghian

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This work is supported in part by the Iran’s National Elites Foundation.

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Radmard, M., Bayat, S., Farina, A. et al. Catching the high altitude invisible by satellite-based forward scatter PCL. SIViP 11, 565–572 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11760-016-0995-1

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