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Radar 2012

International conference on radar systems

22 - 25 October 2012 | Glasgow, UK

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Key dates for authors

Submission of full papers deadline
13 July 2012

 

Notification of acceptance
27 July 2012

 

Author registration deadline
3 September 2012

 

Date of conference
22-25 October 2012

Technical scope

 

The Organising Committee of Radar 2012 welcome submissions from the Radar community. Topics to be covered include (but are not limited to):

 

 

Radar environment and phenomenology 

  • Propagation, foliage penetration
  • Target and clutter signature
  • Low observable design
  • Multifunction systems simulation

             

Radar systems

 

  •  Ground to air surveillance
  •  Ground to space surveillance
  •  Naval and coastal surveillance
  •  Airborne surveillance
  •  Fire control radar
  •  Meteorological radars
  •  Secondary radar
  •  ATM systems
  •  Multifunction, active/passive RF-EW-CNI systems
  •  Emission control, LPI Radars
  •  Networks of sensors
  •  Multiplatform/multisite systems
  •  ECM/ECCM
  •  Counterstealth detection
  •  Design/validation of complex systems

 

Remote sensing from airborne or spaceborne systems

 

  •  SAR modes for 2D and interferometric SAR
  •  Distributed/bistatic or multistatic systems
  •  Innovative SAR concepts
                      
             

Waveform design, beamforming and signal processing

 

  •  Space-time waveforms/processing (STAP)
  •  Knowledge aided (KA) STAP
  •  Adaptive beamforming
  •  Coloured/Interleaved transmission, MIMO
  •  Multifrequency/multipolarisation techniques
  •  Target extraction from clutter and jamming
  •  Detection, CFAR, tracking after/before detection

        

 Emerging radar applications

 

  •  Mine detection
  •  Pollution detection, environment monitoring
  •  Automatic cruise control/security control
  •  Docking aid, tank gauge
  •  Surveillance of runways/detection of debris
  •  Sense and avoid

Emerging technologies
 

  •  Bistatic/multistatic
  •  Time and frequency synchronisation
  •  Passive detection and location, triangulation
  •  Low frequency radar
  •  Millimeter radar/radiometry 
  •  Dual band radar
  •  Ultra wide band radar
  •  Laser radar
  •  High power solid state
  •  RF Photonics 
  •  Superconducting oscillators and filters
  •  MEMS for radar applications
  •  Conformal, non standard antenna

 

Advanced sub-systems technologies

 

  •  New antenna concepts
  •  Wideband antennas and radomes
  •  Antenna calibration
  •  Frequency/angular selective structures
  •  RF filtering 
  •  Future T/R modules
  •  High speed analogue to digital converters
  •  RF modular architectures
  •  Integrated modular avionics 
  •  Reconfigurable processing architectures
  •  Benefits of civilian technologies (COTS)

 

Computer modelling, simulation and validation

 

  • Virtual prototyping
  •  Environment modelling
  • Performance evaluation

    

Radar management techniques

 

  •  Multifunction radar/waveform management
  •  Data fusion, resources allocation
  •  Radar beam scheduling and planning,
  •  Multicriteria optimisation
  •  Multilateration/cooperation of sensors
  •  A-SMGCS  (Advanced- Surface Movement Guidance and Control System)

 

Automatic classification

 

  •  NCTR, ATR 
  •  ISAR
  •  Modelling/learning
  •  High range resolution systems
  •  Sensor fusion for identification

 

Note: This topics guide is not exhaustive and is intended only to provide a guide to the scope of the conference

For full details on how to submit a draft paper see our author information page.