Target tracking using Doppler-only measurements in FM broadcast band commensal radar

• Published in: Electronics letters Vol. 51; no. 19; pp. 1528 - 1530
• Main Authors: Maasdorp, F.D.V, Inggs, M.R, Nadjiasngar, R
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: The Institution of Engineering and Technology 17.09.2015
• Subjects: bearing combination; Broadcasting; course range resolution; CR receiver; direction‐of‐arrival estimation; Doppler effect; Doppler radar; Doppler‐only measurement; FM broadcast band commensal radar; FM radar; Position measurement; Radar; radar receiver; radar receivers; radar resolution; radar tracking; radar transmitters; Radar, sonar and navigation; Receivers; single frequency modulation broadcast radio transmitter; target localisation; Target tracking; Tracking (position); Transmitters; radar tracking; radar transmitters; target localisation; single frequency modulation broadcast radio transmitter; radar receiver; direction-of-arrival estimation; FM radar; FM broadcast band commensal radar; Doppler-only measurement; radar resolution; course range resolution; target tracking; radar receivers; CR receiver; Doppler radar; bearing combination
• ISSN: 0013-5194; 1350-911X; 1350-911X
• DOI: 10.1049/el.2015.1427

Radar research using transmitters of opportunity (commensal radar (CR)) has experienced a resurgence in popularity. Most published results to date used a multiple transmitter, single receiver site configuration with combinations of bearing, range and Doppler for target localisation. Doppler-only tracking has received the least attention. This reported work demonstrates with field measurements, using a single frequency modulation broadcast radio transmitter and multiple, spatially distributed, low-cost CR receivers, that Doppler-only tracking is achievable with target position accuracies of 150 m, despite a course range resolution.