Feasibility of STAP for passive GSM-based radar

In this paper, we examine the feasibility of applying space-time adaptive processing (STAP) to bistatic passive radars using illuminators of opportunity. The transmitters considered are GSM base stations and are non-cooperative. Although STAP has been extensively applied to signals from pulse-Dopple...

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Published in2006 IEEE Conference on Radar p. 6 pp.
Main Authors Neyt, X., Raout, J., Kubica, M., Kubica, V., Roques, S., Acheroy, M., Verly, J.G.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 2006
Subjects
Bandwidth
Base stations
Digital video broadcasting
Doppler radar
Frequency
GSM
Passive radar
Radar cross section
Signal processing
Signal resolution
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ISBN0780394968
9780780394964
ISSN1097-5659
DOI10.1109/RADAR.2006.1631853

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Summary:In this paper, we examine the feasibility of applying space-time adaptive processing (STAP) to bistatic passive radars using illuminators of opportunity. The transmitters considered are GSM base stations and are non-cooperative. Although STAP has been extensively applied to signals from pulse-Doppler radars, it was never applied to arbitrary signals arising from illuminators of opportunity. We show that by computing the appropriate mixing product, we essentially convert the signal of opportunity to a pulse-Doppler like signal, hence making the application of STAP to arbitrary signals straightforward. We finally confirm these theoretical results by using real measurements.
ISBN:0780394968
9780780394964
ISSN:1097-5659
DOI:10.1109/RADAR.2006.1631853