Event date:
Nov 23 2020 6:00 pm

From Two-Pulse Cancellers to Ground Moving Target Indication: An Introduction to Radar Detection of Ground Movers

Speaker(s)
Dr. Mark Richards
Venue
Zoom/Online
Abstract
From Two-Pulse Cancellers to Ground Moving Target Indication: An Introduction to Radar Detection of Ground Movers by Dr Mark Richards Detection of slow-moving ground targets from fast-moving airborne and spaceborne platforms (ground-moving-target-indication or GMTI) is a challenging problem in radar surveillance and detection. This tutorial presents a unified introductory description of current GMTI techniques such as displaced phase center antenna (DPCA) processing, along-track interferometry (ATI), and clutter suppression interferometry (CSI) for ground movers, showing how these techniques are related and how they derive from basic MTI pulse cancellation ideas going back to the earliest days of radar.

Principal Research Engineer (retired), Georgia Tech, USA / Educator and Consultant in Radar Signal Processing

About the speaker: Dr. Mark Richards is an educator and consultant with over 35 years of experience in radar signal processing. A Fellow of the IEEE, cited 'for contributions to radar signal processing education", he is the author of the textbook Fundamentals of Radar Signal Processing, second edition (McGraw-Hill, 2014) and the editor-in-chief and author of multiple chapters in Principles of Modern Radar Basic Principles (SciTech, 2010), as well as chapters in several other textbooks and many technical papers and reports. The majority of his career was with the Georgia Institute of Technology, including 20 years with the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) culminating in the position of Chief of the Radar Systems Division, and 11 years with Georgia Tech's School of Electrical and Computer Engineering teaching undergraduate and graduate signal processing classes and performing sponsored research in radar signal processing and high performance computing.

The seminar took place online via Zoom on November 23rd, 2020, at 06:00 PM Pakistan Standard Time