IEEE RadarCon03 Program

Tuesday, 6 May

Session 1, Radar Systems (Tue - 6 May AM) - Chairs: Dale Ausherman, ERIM and Dr. Stephen Gilbert, Dynetics

• 0835 - Design of Large Space Based Radar for Multimode Surveillance, Mark E. Davis, David Zasada, Braham Himed
• 0855 - Motion Estimation and Time Selection for Ship ISAR Imaging, D. Pastina, A. Monstatari, A. Aprile
• 0915 - Current Airborne Radars of the World, Stephen L. Johnson (invited paper)
• 0935 - Multiple MTI Signal Processor for Mitigating Chaff in Ballistic Missile Defense, J. Michael Madewell
• 0955 - Synopsis of Poster 1 Presentations, Chairs: Joseph Teti, Lambda Science and Jim Day, Lockheed Martin
• 1010 - Break - Poster 1 Session

Session 2, Phenomenology (Tue - 6 May AM) Chairs: Michael Tuley, IDA and Robert Trebits, GTRI

• 1040 - Experimental Modified Reflectivity of Backscatter from the Sea Surface, at Very Low Grazing Angles, Compared to a Ducted Sea Clutter Model, Used in Navy Radar Simulations, Donald de Forest Boyer, George LeFurjah
• 1100 - Use of Passive Radar for Mapping Lightning Channels in a Thunderstorm, Eugene F. Greneker, Jonathan L. Geisheimer
• 1120 - Measurement of S Band Clutter Statistics Using Quasi-Deconvolution filter for a Phase Coded waveform, George LeFurjah, Terry Foreman, Donald Deforrest Boyer
• 1140 - Spike Demographics at High Range Resolutions and Very Low Grazing Angles, Fred Posner, Karl Gerlach

1200 - Lunch - Pioneer Award Presentation - William R. Boario, William M. Brown, Jack L. Walker

Session 3, Space-Time Adaptive Processing (Tue - 6 May PM) - Chairs: Jay Loomis, AMCOM and David Zasada, AFRL

• 1330 - Recursive and Knowledege-Aided Implementation of the Multistage Wiener Filter, John D. Hiemstra, Michael D. Zoltowski, J. Scott Goldstein
• 1350 - Linear STAP Filters Based on Adaptive 2D-FIR Filters, P. Lombardo, F. Colone
• 1410 - Performance Evaluation of Two Polarimetric Space-Time Adaptive Processing (STAP) Architectures, William L. Melvin, Gregory A. Showman
• 1430 - The Reduced Rank Multistage Wiener Filter for Circular Array STAP, Hien N. Nguyen, John D. Hiemstra, J. Scott Goldstein
• 1450 - Median Cascaded Canceller Using Reiterative Processing, Michael L. Picciolo, Karl Gerlach
• 1510 - Synopsis of Poster 2 Presentations, Chairs: Robert Berinato, Dynetics and Larry Corey, DARPA
• 1525 - Poster 2 Session

• 1555 - Wideband Slot Antennas for Radar Applications, Abdelnasser A. Eldek, Atef Z. Elsherbeni, Charles E. Smith, Kai-Fong Lee
• 1615 - Sidelobe Response of Antennas to Short Pulse Signals, Hugh Griffiths, Alex Cullen
• 1635 - Phased Array Antennas Utilizing Directive Elements on a Conformal Surface, Kyungjung Kim, Tapan K. Sarkar
• 1655 - Low Sidelobe Light Weight Microstrip Antenna Array for Battlefield Surveillance Radars, U.K. Revankar, K.S. Beenamole

1800 - Reception - Prefunction Area

1900 - Conference Banquet - Speaker - Mr. Konrad Dannenberg

• Awards Presentations
• Warren White Award, Eli Brookner
• Fred Nathanson Young Engineer of the Year Award, James Ward
• IEEE Fellow Award, David Martinez

Wednesday, 7 May

0800 - Announcements

Session 5, Signal/Data Processing (Wed - 7 May AM) - Chairs: William Melvin, GTRI and Laurie Joiner, UAH

• 0810 - Adaptive Polarimetric Detection in Compound-Gaussian Clutter, G. Alfano, A. De Maio
• 0830 - Exploiting Persymmetry for CFAR Detection in Compound-Gaussian Clutter, Ernesto Conte, Antonio DeMaio
• 0850 - Detection Improvements with CFARS Having Expanded Amplitude Inputs, Maurice W. Long
• 0910 - A Multistage Non-Homogeneity Detector, William C. Ogle, Hien N. Nguyen, J. Scott Goldstein, Peter A. Zulch, Michael C. Wicks
• 0930 - Multi-Channel Signal Subspace Processing Methods for SAR-MTI, Mehrdad Soumekh, Braham Himed
• 0950 - Synopsis, Poster Session 3, Chairs: Merv Budge, Dynetics and Michael Madewell, SMDC
• 1010 - Break - Poster 3 Session

Session 6, Emerging technologies (Wed - 7 May AM) - Chairs: Dale Blair, GTRI and Jerry Crain, Univ. of Okahoma

• 1040 - Operation of an Airborne Bistatic Adjunct to Space Based Radar, Mark E. Davis, Michael P. Hartnett
• 1100 - Configuring a Sparse Aperture Antenna for Spaceborne MTI Radar, Daniel A. Leatherwood, William L. Melvin, Robert Acree
• 1120 - Moving Target Detection Filter for Ultra-Wideband Radar, Soumya Nag, Mark Barnes
• 1140 - HF Radar Astronomy with HAARP, Paul Rodriguez, Edward Kennedy, Paul Kossey

1200 - Lunch - Student Paper Presentation

Session 7, Bistatic Systems (Wed - 7 May PM) - Chairs: Marshall Greenspan, Northrop Grumman and Mark Davis, AFRL

• 1330 - Adaptive Space/Frequency Processing for Distributed Aperture Radars, Raviraj Adve, Richard Schneible, Robert McMillan
• 1350 - Hovering Helicopter Measured by Bi-Multistatic CW Radar Detection and Classification Issues, Terje Johnsen, Karl Erik Olsen, Rune Gundersen
• 1410 - New Solutions to the Problem of Range Dependence in Bistatic STAP Radars, Fabian D. Lapierre, Marc Van Droogenbroeck, Jacques G. Verly
• 1430 - Doubly-Adaptive Bistatic Clutter Filtering, William L. Melvin, Braham Himed, Mark E. Davis
• 1450 - Distributed Aperture Radar for Improved ECCM/Tracking, Dick Schneible
• 1510 - Synopsis, Poster Session 4, Chairs: Stephen Johnston, International Radar Directory and Michael Dorsett, SMDC
• 1525 Break - Poster Session 4

Session 8, Modeling & Simulation (Wed - 7 May PM) - Chairs: Michael Wicks, AFRL and Scott Goldstein, SAIC

• 1555 - Phased Arrays That Adapt in REAL Time, Kyungjung Kim, Tapan Sarkar
• 1615 - Dynamic Detection Capability of a Mobile Bistatic Weapon Locating Radar, Karl Woodbridge, Christopher Banahan
• 1635 - Optimal InSAR Baselines via MAP Estimation, Lei Ying, David Munson, Jr.
• 1655 - Space-Based Radar (SBR) Modeling with Higher Order Effects, Mark Davis, John Maher, Robert J. Hancock, Sidney W. Theis

1730 - Exhibitor's Reception

Poster Sessions

Poster Session 1 (Tue - 6 May AM) - Chairs: Joseph Teti, Lambda Science and Jim Day, Lockheed Martin

• Medium PRF Radar PRF Selection Using Evolutionary Algorithms, C.M. Allabaster, E.J. Hughes
• Micro-Doppler Phenomenon and Radar Signature, Victor C. Chen
• Optimal Power-Aperture Balance, Esko Jaska
• An Advanced Radar Imaging Technique with Propagation and Clustering, Ahmed F. Kamal, John A. Copeland
• Three Dimensional Image Reconstruction Procedure Over Barcer's Phase Code Modulated ISAR Signals, Andon Dimitrov Lazarov, Chavdar Nikolaev Minchev, Hristo Avgustov Kabakchiev
• A Radically New Target Detection Process, Ching-Tai Lin, Ben Cantrell
• Phenomenology of Bistatic Radar Scattering from Clutter at Ka-Band, Adib Y. Nashashibi, Fawwaz T. Ulaby, Yang Du
• A Novel Method for Increasing the Real-time of Multitarget-Multisensor Tracking System, Ming-Hui Wang, Ying-Ning Peng, Zhi-Sheng You
• A Chirp Signal Parameter Estimation Algorithm and its Application to SAR Imaging of Moving Targets, Liping Zhang, Yingning Peng, Jia Xu, Xianggen Xia
• Monopulse Radar Detection and Localization of Multiple Targets via Joint Multiple-Bin Processing, Xin Zhang, Peter Willett, Yaakov Bar-Shalom

Poster Session 2 (Tue - 6 May PM)- Chairs: Robert Berinato, Dynetics and Larry Corey, DARPA

• High-Efficincey L-Band Transmit/Receive Module for synthetic Aperture Radar, Wendy N. Edelstein, Constantine Andricos, Alina Moussessian, Feiyu Wang, David Rutledge
• Robust STAP Using Reiterative Censoring, Karl Gerlach, Michael L. Picciolo
• Target Detection in Heterogeneous Airborne Radar Interference Using 3D STAP, T.B. Hale, M.A. Temple, M.C. Wicks
• Novel Self-Healing Antennas for Current and 4G Radars and Communications, Ahmed F. Kamal, John A. Copeland
• Dielectric Resonator Antennas, a Candidate for Radar Applications, Ahmed A. Kishk
• Performance Characterization of Space-Time Adaptive Processing Algorithms for Distributed Target Detection in Realistic Non-Ideal Environments, Keith F. McDonald, Joseph Gaffney, Rick S. Blum
• Multibeam Integration for Increased Bandwidth in Phased Arrays, Chuck Quintero, Greg Charlton
• Normalized Matched Filter-A Low Rank Approach, M. Rangaswamy, J.H. Michels, B. Himed
• Super-resolurion Frequency Estimation of the Sinusoidal Signals with Unknown Lowpass Envelopes, Feng-Xiang Ge, Hao Zhang, Jian Yang, Ying-Ning Peng
• Sequential Nulling and Adaptive Processing (SNAP), Robert H. Fletcher
• Modified Radiation and Gain Formulae for Small-Aperture Horn Antenns, Daniel E. Lawrence
• Terrestrial Based Inflatable Dish Antennas, Larry T. Lowe, Ronald D. Hackett, Paul Gierow

Poster Session 3 (Wed - 7 May AM) - Chairs: Merv Budge, Dynetics and Michael Madewell, SMDC

• Blind Adaptive Detection of Distributed Targets in Compound-Gaussian Clutter, Antonio De Maio
• Measurement Extents and Sampling Intervals for Multiple-Bounce SAR Image Formation, David A. Garren, J. Scott Goldstein, Jan A. North
• Asymptotic Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Multiple Radar Targets, Fulvio Gini, Maria Greco, Alfonso Farina
• Band-Partitioned Sidelobe Canceller for a Wideband Radar, Feng-ling C. Lin, Karl Gerlach, Michael L. Picciolo
• Differential Denoising Bearing Estimation for Spatially Distributed Sources in Unknown Correlated Noise, Shenjian Liu, Qun Wan, Yingning Peng
• Target Detection in Sea Clutter Using Convolutional Neutral Networks, Gustavo Lopez-Risueno, Jesus Grajal, Rosa Diaz-Oliver
• Mutistatic Radar as a Means of Dealing with the Detection of Multipath False Targets by Airport Surface Detection Equipment Radars, Thomas A. Seliga, Francis J. Coyne
• Maximum Likelihood Angle Extractor in the Presence of Sea-Surface Multipath, A. Sinha, Y. Bar-Shalom
• New Detection Algorithm for Poor Signal-to-Noise Conditions, Juho V. Vihonen, Timo K. Ala-Kleemola, Elina E. Helander, Jani M. Tikkinen, Ari J. Visa
• A Quadrant-based Location Tracking Method, Q. Wan, J. Yuan, Y. N. Peng

Poster Session 4 (Wed - 7 May PM) - Chairs: Stephen Johnson, International Radar Directory and Michael Dorsett, SMDC

• FOPEN Scene Generation Using Numerical Electomagnetic Analysis, E. Chen, M. Simcoe, R.S. Adve, J. Schneible, M.C. Wicks
• Future Bistatic System Design for SAR and GMTI Modes, Pileih Chen
• A Technical Assessment of Mutilateration and ADS-B Technology in The Gulf of Mexico, Anastasios C. Daskalakis, Patrick J. Mrtone, George E. Tucker
• Data Modeling for Radar Applications, Holger Jaenisch, James Handley
• New Methods in the High Firing-Rate Muzzle Velocity Radar System, Zhang Jun
• Realisation Study of Digital Radar Array (DRA), Fernando Kjellen
• Land Clutter Map Development for Millimeter-Wave Radar, G. P. Kulemin, E.V. Tarnavsky
• Further Consideration of a Weight Vector Representation for the Parametric Adaptive Matched Filter, James H. Michels
• Augmented MUSIC Method and Performance Analysis, Q. Wan, S.J. Liu, Y. Yuan, Y.N. Peng
• Effects of Geometry on Clutter Characteristics of Bistatic Radars, Yuhong Zhang, Braham Himed
• GSM Based Passive Radar System, Liu Weixian