Programme 7th PCL 2019

On-site registration is open from 8:00 until 17:00 during the workshop.

Tuesday, 07. May 2019
from Hall 1
09:30 Welcome by D. Cristallini and M. Weiß
09:40 Keynote: Roland Krebs (EDA, Brussels, Belgium)
Passive Radar Projects at the European Defence Agency
10:10 Coffee Break
10:40 Session A.1
Concepts and new Approaches
12:20 Lunch Break
13:50 Session A.2
Radar Networks / Multistatic PCL Systems
15:30 Coffee Break
16:00 Session A.3
Passive SAR / ISAR
17:20 End of Day 1
Wednesday, 08. May 2019
09:00 Keynote: Mikhail Cherniakov (Uni. Of Birmingham, United Kingdom)
Thinking differently about Passive Radar Performance Specifications
09:30 Coffee Break
10:00 Session A.4
Signal Processing
11:20 Coffee Break
11:50 Session A.5 I.
Trials / Experiments
12:30 Lunch Break
14:00 Session A.5 II.
Trials / Experiments
15:00 Coffee Break
15:30 Session A.6
PCL Sytems with Satellite Illuminators
17:10 Résumé / Discussion Round / Closing Remarks / End of PCL Focus Days

 

Sessions

Tuesday, 07. May 2019
Hall 1
09:30 Welcome by D. Cristallini and M. Weiß
09:40 Keynote: Roland Krebs (EDA, Brussels, Belgium)
Passive Radar Projects at the European Defence Agency
10:10 Coffee Break
A1: Concepts and new Approaches
Chairs: M. Weiß
10:40 Validation of Wind Turbine Signatures in a Passive Bistatic Radar System with a Point Scatterer Model
Martin Ummenhofer (Fraunhofer FHR, Germany)
11:00 A Bi-static Automotive Joint Radar Communications System at mmWave
Sayed Hossein Dokhanchi (Uni. of Luxembourg, Luxembourg), Bhavani Shankar M. R (Uni. of Luxembourg, Luxembourg), Kumar Vijay Mishra (Uni. of Luxembourg, Luxembourg + Uni. of Iowa, USA), Bjorn Ottersten (Uni. of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
11:20 Passive Near Forward Scatter Radar with an antenna cluster using Cristal Video Detection and Estimation
Pierfrancesco Lombardo (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy), Nertjana Ustalli (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy), Debora Pastina (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
11:40 Selected ideas for cognitive passive radar
Marcin Żywek (University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland), Mateusz Malanowski (University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland)
12:00 Simulating RCS for DVB-T passive radar measurements of an aircraft
Peter Speirs (University of Bern, Switzerland), Arne Schröder (University of Bern, Switzerland), Michael Kohler (Fraunhofer FHR, Germany), Diego Cristallini (Fraunhofer FHR, Germany), Daniel O’Hagan (Fraunhofer FHR, Germany), Christof Schüpbach (Armasuisse W+T, Switzerland), Peter Wellig (Armasuisse W+T, Switzerland), Axel Murk (University of Bern, Switzerland)
12:20 Lunch Break
A2: Radar Networks / Multistatic PCL Systems
Chairs: V. Stejskal / A. Capria
13:50 Airspace Surveillance using the European Aviation Network EAN as PCL Illuminator
Christian Steffes (Fraunhofer FKIE, Germany), Bruno Demissie (Fraunhofer FKIE, Germany), Matthias Mandt (Fraunhofer FKIE, Germany)
14:10 Passive Radar Cluster
Christian Erhart (HENSOLDT Sensors GmbH, Germany), Volker Winkler (HENSOLDT Sensors GmbH, Germany), Steffen Lutz (HENSOLDT Sensors GmbH, Germany)
14:30 Aspects of Next Generation Sensor/Radar Network
Matthias Weiß (Fraunhofer FHR, Germany), Stephan Sandenbergh (Fraunhofer FHR, Germany), Ferran Valdes (Fraunhofer FHR, Germany), Peter Müller (Fraunhofer FHR, Germany), Dominik Bok (Fraunhofer FHR, Germany), Michael Kohler (Fraunhofer FHR, Germany), Daniel O’Hagan (Fraunhofer FHR, Germany), Peter Knott (Fraunhofer FHR, Germany)
14:50 An Adaptive Distributed Clock for Radar Networks
J. Stephan Sandenbergh (Fraunhofer FHR, Germany), Matthias Weiß (Fraunhofer FHR, Germany), Ferran Valdes-Crespi (Fraunhofer FHR, Germany), Daniel W. O'Hagan (Fraunhofer FHR, Germany)
15:10 Illuminator Identification in Single Frequency Networks
Christof Schüpbach (Armasuisse W+T, Switzerland), Alain Jaquier (Armasuisse W+T, Switzerland), Christian Patry (ENKOM, Switzerland)
15:30 Coffee Break
A3: Passive SAR / ISAR
Chairs: F. Santi / P. Lombardo
16:00 Passive 3D InISAR using target-borne illuminators of oppartunity
Elisa Giusti (Uni Pisa, Italy), Marco Martorella (Uni Pisa, Italy)
16:20 An overview of passive SAR imaging results based on DVB-T signals using a small jet Sabreliner aircraft
Per-Olov Frölind (FOI, Sweden), Anders Gustavsson (FOI, Sweden), Anders Haglund (FOI, Sweden), Rolf Ragnarsson (FOI, Sweden), Thomas Sjögren (FOI, Sweden), Lars Ulander (FOI, Sweden)
16:40 DVB-T SAR image properties
George Atkinson (Uni. Of Birmingham, United Kingdom), Alp Sayin (Uni. Of Birmingham, United Kingdom), Mikhail Cherniakov (Uni. Of Birmingham, United Kingdom), Mike Antoniou (Uni. Of Birmingham, United Kingdom)
17:00 Electronic Countermeasure for OFDM-based Imaging Passive Radars
Elisa Giusti (CNIT-RaSS, Pisa, Italy), Amerigo Capria (CNIT-RaSS, Pisa, Italy), Marco Martorella (Uni. Pisa, Italy), Christian Moscardini (Uni. Pisa, Italy), Fabrizio Berizzi (Uni. Pisa, Italy)
17:20 End of Day 1
Wednesday, 08. May 2019
09:00 Keynote: Mikhail Cherniakov (Uni. Of Birmingham, United Kingdom)
Thinking differently about Passive Radar Performance Specifications
09:30 Coffee Break
A4: Signal Processing
Chairs: E. Giusti / P.-O. Frölind
10:00 Effective strategies for direct signal and clutter cancellation in passive radar on moving platforms
Giovanni Paolo Blasone (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy), Fabiola Colone (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy), Pierfrancesco Lombardo (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy), Philipp Wojaczek (Fraunhofer FHR, Germany), Diego Cristallini (Fraunhofer FHR, Germany)
10:20 Sparsity-Driven Moving Target Detection in Distributed Multistatic FMCW Radars
Gilles Monnoyer de Galland de Carnières (UCLouvain, Belgium), Thomas Feuillen (UCLouvain, Belgium), Laurent Jacques (UCLouvain, Belgium), Luc Vandendorpe (UCLouvain, Belgium)
10:40 MIMO-FM or 3D-FM with a simple linear receiving array
Olivier Rabaste (Onera, France), Dominique Poullin (Onera, France), Michel Menelle (Onera, France), Bruno Urbani (Onera, France)
11:00 Low cost passive radar using digital broadcasting signals
Holger Nies (ZESS, Germany), Florian Behner (ZESS, Germany), Simon Reuter (ZESS, Germany)
11:20 Coffee Break
A5: Trials / Experiments I
Chairs: S. Sandenbergh
11:50 Dual-band AULOS Passive Radar System: recent advances and current challenges
Tatiana Martelli (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy), Francesca Filippini (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy), Fabiola Colone (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy), Roberta Cardinali (Leonardo Company, Italy)
12:10 DMPAR Deployment and Assessment in Military Scenario - Trials of 2019
Idar Norheim-Næss (FFI, Norway), Piotr Samczynski (University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland)
12:30 Lunch Break
A5: Trials / Experiments II
Chairs: S. Sandenbergh
14:00 Evaluation of Active MSPSR System Performance
Vojtech Stejskal (ERA a.s., Czech Republic), Petra Stukovska (ERA a.s., Czech Republic)
14:20 Efficient Mission Planning for Passive Radar
Fabienne Hoffmann (HENSOLDT Sensors GmbH, Germany)
14:40 Deployment of a commercial PCL system at the Square Kilometre Array Radio Telescope
Francois Louw (Peralex, South Africa), Alex Bassios (Peralex, South Africa), Per Karlsen (Peralex, South Africa)
15:00 Coffee Break
A6: PCL Sytems with Satellite Illuminators
Chairs: D. Cristallini
15:30 Ship target detection and localization with a GNSS-based passive radar using long integration times and multistatic acquisitions
Fabrizio Santi (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy), Federica Pieralice (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy), Debora Pastina (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
15:50 DVB-S based passive radar for ground targets detection and tracking
Pedro Gómez-del-Hoyo (University of Alcalá, Spain), Maria-Pilar Jarabo-Amores (University of Alcalá, Spain), David Mata-Moya (University of Alcalá, Spain), Javier Rosado-Sanz (University of Alcalá, Spain), Nerea Del-Rey-Maestre (University of Alcalá, Spain)
16:10 Single channel GPS L1 band passive radar for air surveiallance - challenges and first results on air target detection
Kamil Gronowski (University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland), Piotr Samczynski (University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland), Krzysztof Stasiak (University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland), Krzysztof Kulpa (University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland)
16:30 Simultaneous DVB-T and DVB-S based passive ISAR for maritime target imaging
Iole Pisciottano (Fraunhofer FHR, Germany), Diego Cristallini (Fraunhofer FHR, Germany), Debora Pastina (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
16:50 Passive Bistatic Sea Clutter Statistics from Spaceborne Illuminators
Luke Rosenberg (Defence Science and Technology, Australia), Jeffrey Ouellette (Naval Research Laboratory, USA), David Dowgiallo (Naval Research Laboratory, USA)
17:10 Résumé / Discussion Round / Closing Remarks / End of PCL Focus Days