Radar Micro-Doppler Mini-UAV Classification using Spectrograms and Cepstrograms

The radar micro-Doppler signature of a target is determined by parts of the target moving or rotating in addition to the main body motion. The relative motion of these parts is characteristic for different classes of targets, e.g. the flapping motion of a bird’s wings versus the spinning of propeller blades. In the present study, the micro...

Classification of small UAVs and birds by micro-Doppler signatures

The popularity of small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is increasing. Therefore, the importance of security systems able to detect and classify them is increasing as well. In this paper, we propose a new approach for UAVs classification using continuous wave radar or high pulse repetition frequency (PRF) pulse radars. We consider all steps of...

A multi-channel S-band FMCW radar front-end

This paper describes the design and performance of a low-cost synthesized FMCW radar module, operating in S band. The bi-layer PCB contains a frequency-agile low phase-noise synthesizer and three identical coherent receive-channels. The transmit channel has an automatic power control system that reduces the output power when a large reflection...

Vegetation and Soil Characteristics in SIR-C data

We compared polarimetric C- and L-band and ground truth data from bare soil, young wheat and mature maize fields of the agricultural test site Flevoland in the Netherlands collected during the SIR-C campaign in April and October 1994. We find that the L-band is more sensitive to the soil roughness than the C-band. In particular L-band HH gives...