This paper investigates the target detection capability of a Passive Forward Scatter Radar (PFSR) exploiting a DVB-T transmitter as illuminator of opportunity. Specifically, it is shown that conventional processing schemes adopted in PFSR might suffer from significant performance degradation when dealing with OFDM waveforms of opportunity compared to the case of FM radio broadcast. In fact, a non-negligible increase of the disturbance background is observed in the final spectrogram, which yields an undesired masking effect on weak target echoes. Therefore, we propose a signal-based processing technique to mitigate the observed effect and improve the target detection capability. The proposed approach exploits the possibility to recover a good copy of the transmitted signal based on its digital nature; this is then used to cancel the fluctuating component of the output arising from the adopted modulation of the waveform of opportunity. The effectiveness of the proposed approach is proved against simulated data.

DVB-T based forward scatter radar for small target surveillance / Di Seglio, M.; Colone, F.. - 2020:(2020), pp. 1-6. (Intervento presentato al convegno 2020 IEEE Radar Conference, RadarConf 2020 tenutosi a Florence; Italy) [10.1109/RadarConf2043947.2020.9266416].

DVB-T based forward scatter radar for small target surveillance

Di Seglio M.
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Colone F.
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2020

Abstract

This paper investigates the target detection capability of a Passive Forward Scatter Radar (PFSR) exploiting a DVB-T transmitter as illuminator of opportunity. Specifically, it is shown that conventional processing schemes adopted in PFSR might suffer from significant performance degradation when dealing with OFDM waveforms of opportunity compared to the case of FM radio broadcast. In fact, a non-negligible increase of the disturbance background is observed in the final spectrogram, which yields an undesired masking effect on weak target echoes. Therefore, we propose a signal-based processing technique to mitigate the observed effect and improve the target detection capability. The proposed approach exploits the possibility to recover a good copy of the transmitted signal based on its digital nature; this is then used to cancel the fluctuating component of the output arising from the adopted modulation of the waveform of opportunity. The effectiveness of the proposed approach is proved against simulated data.
2020
2020 IEEE Radar Conference, RadarConf 2020
cancellation; DVB-T; forward scatter; OFDM; passive radar
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DVB-T based forward scatter radar for small target surveillance / Di Seglio, M.; Colone, F.. - 2020:(2020), pp. 1-6. (Intervento presentato al convegno 2020 IEEE Radar Conference, RadarConf 2020 tenutosi a Florence; Italy) [10.1109/RadarConf2043947.2020.9266416].
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