9th Focus Days 2023
International Multistatics & Passive Radar Focus Days
Programme of the 9th Multistatic PCL Focus Days 2023
On-site registration is open from 8:00 until 17:00 during the workshop.
| Tuesday, 17. October 2023 | |
| 12:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00 | Opening Remarks by M. Weiß |
| 13:05 | Welcome by P. Knott, D. O'Hagan, D. Cristallini |
| 13:15 | Keynote 1: Overview of Bi- and Multi-Static Radar Activities D. O'Hagan (Fraunhofer FHR, DE) |
| 13:35 | Keynote 2: Satellite based passive radar: challenges and opportunities D. Cristallini (Fraunhofer FHR, DE) |
| 13:55 | Keynote 3: Sensing in the age of FCAS Mario Hertzog (Airbus, DE) |
| Session 1 | |
| Chair: D. Bok | |
| 14:25 | A study on direct signal suppression methods in FM-based passive radar Oskar Jonsson, Axel Tryblom, Viktor Deleskog, Thomas Sjogren (FOI, SE) |
| 14:45 | Poisson multi-Bernoulli mixture filter for passive FM radar tracking Viktor Deleskog (FOI, SE) |
| 15:05 | Multilook in DVB-T based Passive SAR Imaging P. Gomez-del-Hoyo, P. Samczynski, D. Gromek, K. Kulpa (Warsaw University of Technology, PL) |
| 15:25 | Coffee Break |
| Session 2 | |
| Chair: P. Samczynski | |
| 15:50 | Peralex DVB-T2 Passive Radar for Manned Aircraft Awareness: Insights and Challenges from Deploying at an Iron Ore Mine Jean Swart (Peralex BV, NL), Johan van Heerden (Anglo American-Kumba Iron ore, SA) |
| 16:10 | Alternative strategies for reference signal reconstruction for FM-based passive radar Stephen Paine (University of Cape Town, SA), Christof Schüpbach (Armasuisse, CH) |
| 16:30 | Application of quality of service based resource management to PNT and synchronisation problems Sebastian Durst (Fraunhofer FHR, DE) |
| 16:50 | Multiband Passive Radar System for Air Traffic Control and Research Purposes at the Przasnysz Airfield Marcin Żywek (Warsaw University of Technology, PL) |
| 17:10 | GNSS-disciplined Cesium Clocks for Space Radar Networks Erik Busley, Timotej Zuntar (Fraunhofer FHR, DE) |
| 17:30 | End of Day 1 |
| 19:30 | SOCIAL EVENT --> Sion im Carre Bonn |
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| Wednesday, 18. October 2023 | |
| Session 3 | |
| Chair: C. Schüpbach | |
| 09:00 | Geolocation from Multistatic Passive Radar Robert Young, Oscar Glenister (Defence Science and Technology Group, AU) |
| 09:20 | Radar platform tracking for airborne bistatic systems Tomas McKelvey (Calmers University, Sweden), Dammert Patrik (Saab, SE) |
| 09:40 | Plot-level fusion of passive radar and passive emitter tracking data to improve target height estimation Martina Brötje (Fraunhofer FKIE, DE) |
| 10:00 | GNSS-based multistatic passive ISAR Ilaria Nasso, Fabrizio Santi and Debora Pastina (Uni. Sapienza, IT) |
| 10:20 | 3D mesospheric wind fields from multistatic specular meteor radar measurements using physics-informed machine learning Miguel Urco (Leibniz Institute for Atmospheric Physics, DE) |
| 10:40 | Challenges and opportunities in 5G-based passive radars R. Maksymiuk, K. Abratkiewicz, P. Samczynski, M. Płotka, P. J. Gomez del Hoyo, K. Kulpa (Warsaw University of Technology, PL) |
| 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| Session 4 | |
| Chair: M. Weiß | |
| 11:30 | Feasibility of Passive radar using LTE/4G : on the use of eigenvalues for analyzing the configuration Dominique Poullin, Abigaël Taylor (Onera, FR) |
| 11:50 | Non-Gaussian Targets in Mobile Communication Passive Radar Track-before-Detect Benjamin Knoedler, Christian Steffes (Fraunhofer FKIE, DE) |
| 12:10 | Clutter cancellation in mobile OFDM radars through Supervised Reciprocal Filter Andrea Quirini, Fabiola Colone, Pierfrancesco Lombardo (Uni. Sapienza, IT) |
| 12:30 | Results of Dual-Polarimetric Airborne Passive Radar Philipp Markiton, Diego Cristallini (Fraunhofer FHR, DE) |
| 12:50 | Generalised Processing Pipeline for Analogue and Digital Signals in Passive Radar Stephen Paine (University of Cape Town, SA) |
| 13:10 | Lunch |
| Session 5 | |
| Chair: M. Edrich | |
| 14:00 | Cramer-Rao Lower Bound of Localization of a Moving Target by a Dynamic Multistatic Radar Detmer, Bosma (TNO, NL), Philipp Markiton (Fraunhofer FHR, DE) |
| 14:20 | Starlink and OneWeb satellite constellations as emerging illuminators for passive radar applications Rodrigo Blázquez-García (Fraunhofer FHR, DE), Pedro Gomez-Del-Hoyo (Warsaw University of Technology, PL), Diego Cristallini (Fraunhofer FHR, DE), Piotr Samczyński (Warsaw University of Technology, PL), Martin Ummenhofer (Fraunhofer FHR, DE), Mariia Khyzhniak2, Viktor Seidel (Fraunhofer FHR, DE), Jörg Heckenbach (Fraunhofer FHR, DE), Daniel O’Hagan (Fraunhofer FHR, DE) |
| 14:40 | Means to Improve the Use of Passive Radar in Wind Turbine Affected Areas Pasi Pertilä, Juhani Nissilä, Juha Jylhä, Minna Väilä, Marko Tikkinen, Kai Hiltunen (Patria, FI) |
| 15:00 | Coffee Break |
| Session 6 | |
| Chair: D. Cristallini | |
| 15:30 | Multistatic radar trials in an urban environment with drone targets Michail Antoniou (Uni. Birmingham, UK) |
| 15:50 | Passive Radar Parasol Marvin Friedrichsen (Dirkshof, DE) |
| 16:10 | Future Airborne Multistatic Radars: Operational Benefits and Enabler for Information Superiority Tobias Chaloun, Christoph Fischer, Tim Kistenfeger, Ruben Kobbert, Felix Rüting (Hensoldt, DE) |
| 16:30 | Closing Remarks / End of PCL Focus Days D. O'Hagan |
| 16:40 | End of Focus Days |