Non-Line-of-Sight Radar

Non-Line-of-Sight Radar
Contents
1
Introduction
	1.1 Background
	1.2 NLOS Radar Overview
	1.3 Chapter Outline
	References
2
Review of Ground Surveillance Sensors
	2.1 MTI Radar
	2.2 Kalman Filter
		2.2.1 Linear Kalman Filter
		2.2.2 Extended Kalman Filter
	2.3 Multiple Hypothesis Tracking
	2.4 Bayesian Particle Filters
	2.5 Track-Before-Detect
	References
3
Exploitation of Multipath Physics in Det
	3.1 Introduction
	3.2 Review of EM Propagation and Multipa
		3.2.1 Diffraction Assumption
		3.2.2 Ray Tracing
		3.2.3 Modeling Antenna Directivity and G
		3.2.4 Modeling Atmospheric Loss
		3.2.5 Treatment of Diffuse Scattering
		3.2.6 Modeling Surface Reflection Polari
		3.2.7 Range-Doppler Processing
		3.2.8 MTI Signal Processing
	3.3 Geometric Analysis: A Basic EM Simul
	3.4 Full Electromagnetic Simulations
	3.5 Incorporating Building Geometries
	3.6 Radar System Analysis for Multipath
	3.7 Track Simulations of the City Model
		3.7.1 Track 1 (Urban) Simulation of Towe
		3.7.2 Track 2 (Street) Simulation of Tow
		3.7.3 Track 3 (Interstate) of Tower Moun
		3.7.4 Tower Simulation Summary
	3.8 Simulations of Phoenix/Tempe and Com
	3.9 NLOS Tracking
		3.9.1 MER Data Collection Description
		3.9.2 Validation of Multipath Signatures
		3.9.3 KA-MAP NLOS Tracker
		3.9.4 NLOS Tracker Results
	3.10 Summary
	References
4
Terrain Databases
	4.1 Terrain Databases
		4.1.1 DTED
		4.1.2 Land Cover
		4.1.3 Scattering Power versus Incident A
	4.2 Urban Databases
		4.2.1 Extracting Building Geometries fro
		4.2.2 Automatic Corner Detection Using I
		4.2.3 Measuring Building Geometries from
		4.2.4 Existing 3-D Urban Models
	References
5
High-Fidelity Modeling and Simulation
	5.1 Geometrics Optics Simulations of Ter
		5.1.1 Terrain Scattering LOS Calculation
		5.1.2 Terrain Scattering LOS Calculation
	5.2 Diffraction
		5.2.1 KED
		5.2.2 UTD
	5.3 SEKE
	5.4 Radar Simulations Using Elliptical C
	5.5 Commercial Software
	References
6
Computing Hardware Acceleration Strategi
	6.1 GPU Computational Model
	6.2 GPU Programming
	6.3 FPGA
	6.4 Ray-Tracing Line-of-Sight Algorithms
		6.4.1 Shapes and Ray Intersections
		6.4.2 Intersection Acceleration Algorith
	6.5 GPU Ray-Tracing Example
	6.6 FPGA Ray Tracing
	References
About the Authors
Index