학술논문

Low-cost radar surveillance of inland waterways for homeland security applications
Document Type
Conference
Source
Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE Radar Conference (IEEE Cat. No.04CH37509) Radar conference Radar Conference, 2004. Proceedings of the IEEE. :134-139 2004
Subject
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Aerospace
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Radar applications
Surveillance
Terrorism
Radar tracking
Radar detection
Radar signal processing
Application software
Signal processing
Computerized monitoring
Lakes
Language
Abstract
Low-cost radar systems have been developed for homeland security missions. These detect and track small maneuvering craft in the water. The systems consist of a conventional marine radar, a capture card that digitizes the radar signals, and a computer that processes them. We have an experimental system that can monitor western Lake Ontario. It runs in real time, with operator controls, and can store captured radar video. The achieved detection and tracking is demonstrated with recorded datasets. The combination of lower thresholds plus a sophisticated multi-target tracker gives excellent performance.