Proceedings of the 3rd European Radar Conference A 77-GHz Radar Transmitter with Parallelised Noise Shaping DDS 2 Johannes Kepler University, Altenberger Str. 69, A-4040 Linz, Austria Danube Integrated Circuit Engineering, Freist¨ dter Str. 400, A-4040 Linz, Austria a 1 Christoph Wagner 1, 2 , Andreas Stelzer 1 , and Herbert J¨ ger 2 a christoph.wagner-infineon.com, a.stelzer-icie.jku.at, her

Proceedings of the 3rd European Radar Conference RF MEMS and GaAs Based Reconfigurable RF Front-End Components for Wide-Band Multi-Functional Phased Arrays 1 R. Malmqvist, 1 A. Gustafsson, 1 T. Nilsson, 1 C. Samuelsson, 1 B. Carlegrim, 1 I. Ferrer, 2 T. Vähä-Heikkilä, 1 A. Ouacha, and 1 R. Erickson 1 2 FOI Swedish Defence Research Agency, Linköping, SE-58111, Sweden VTT Technical Research Centr

Proceedings of the 3rd European Radar Conference Innovative Dual Band Reconfigurable Beam Forming Network for Conformal Arrays R. Vincenti Gatti, A. Ocera, L. Marcaccioli and R. Sorrentino University of Perugia, DIEI, via G. Duranti 93, 06125 Perugia, Italy ABSTRACT -- An innovative dual band reconfigurable beam forming network for conformal arrays is introduced, based on a dual band power divide

Proceedings of the 3rd European Radar Conference Low-power Radar for Wireless Sensor Networks Maarten Ditzel, Frans H. Elferink Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research P.O. Box 96864, 2509 JG Den Haag, The Netherlands Email: {maarten.ditzel,frans.elferink}-tno.nl Abstract-- This paper presents the results of a short study on the feasibility of radars as the primary means of sens

Proceedings of the 3rd European Radar Conference Sparse antenna array configurations in large aperture synthesis radio telescopes W.A. van Cappellen, S.J. Wijnholds, J.D. Bregman ASTRON, P.O. Box 2, 7990 AA, Dwingeloo, The Netherlands Abstract -- This paper presents the trade-offs between sparse versus dense and regular versus irregular arrays for the station configuration of the LOFAR Low Band A

Proceedings of the 3rd European Radar Conference Airborne Weather Radar as Instrument for Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere F.J. Yanovsky National Aviation University, Prospect Komarova 1, 03058, Kiev, Ukraine Usually weather radar should at least enable to detect clouds and precipitation, select zones of meteorological danger, and show radar image of surface to the pilot in the map mode. A major

Proceedings of the 3rd European Radar Conference Rain Clutter Filtering from Radar Data with Slope Based Filter Ilkka Ellonen*, Arto Kaarna** Department of Information Technology /Mikkeli Polytechnic, P.O.Box 181 FIN-50101 Mikkeli/Finland, ilkka.ellonen-mikkeliamk.fi ** Department of Information Technology /Lappeenranta University of Technology/ P.O.Box 20 FIN53851 Lappeenranta/Finland, arto.kaar

Proceedings of the 3rd European Radar Conference Meteorological Object Characteristic Calculation Using Doppler Spectrum Analysis with Neural Network Vitaliy Marchuk, Yaroslav Ostrovsky, Felix Yanovsky Department of Aeronavigation Systems, National Aviation University, Kiev, 03058, Ukraine Abstract -- In this paper, neural network usage for processing Doppler spectra from rain sounding is conside

Proceedings of the 3rd European Radar Conference Characterisation of a Multistatic Radar System Shaun Doughty, Karl Woodbridge and Chris Baker Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering University College London,Torrington Place, London WC1E 7JE Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 7306 Fax: +44 (0)20 7388 9325 s.doughty-ee.ucl.ac.uk, k.woodbridge-ee.ucl.ac.uk, c.baker-ee.ucl.ac.uk Abstract-- In this pape

Proceedings of the 3rd European Radar Conference SAR Raw Data Simulation in the Frequency Domain A. S. Khwaja, L. Ferro-Famil and E. Pottier Insitut d'Electronique et de Télécommunications de Rennes, UMR CNRS 6164, University of Rennes1, Campus de Beaulieu-Batiment 11 D, 263 Avenue du General Leclerc, CS 74205 35042 Rennes Cedex France Abstract -- SAR raw data simulation is important for many pur