Keynote Presentations

Plenary Keynote: Sparse Sensing for Statistical Inference

Geert Leus, Delft University of Technology

Plenary Keynote: Taming the Torrent: Future Military Signal Processing and Information Fusion

Philip Perconti, US Army Research Laboratory

Invited Speakers

1.0        Multi-sensor multi-target tracking techniques for Space Situational Awareness

Daniel Clark, Heriot-Watt University

4.0        Transmit Adaptivity in Radar

Antonio De Maio, University of Naples Federico II

Paper Presentations

1.1          An Adaptive Receiver Search Strategy for Electronic Support

Sabine Apfeld^1, Alexander Charlish¹, Wolfgang Koch², ¹Fraunhofer, ²Fraunhofer/University of Bonn

1.2          New environmental dependent modeling with Gaussian particle filtering based implementation for ground vehicle tracking               

Miao Yu¹, Yali Xue¹, Runxiao Ding¹, Hyondong Oh¹, Wen-Hua Chen¹, Jonathon Chambers², Loughborough University¹, Newcastle University²

1.3          Robust Detection of micro-UAS drones with L-band 3-D Holographic Radar

¹Mohammed Jahangir, ¹Chris Baker, Aveillant Ltd¹

1.4          Direction Finding Antenna Arrays with Improved Accuracy and Reduced Complexity and Size  

¹Houcem Gazzah, University of Sharjah¹

4.1          Experimental Study on Full-Polarization Micro-Doppler of Space Precession Target in Microwave Anechoic Chamber

Jin Liu¹, Qihua Wu, Xiaofeng Ai¹, Feng Zhao¹, Jian'an Chen¹, ¹National University of Defense Technology

4.2          Fractional Fourier Transform Based Co-Radar Waveform: Experimental Validation

Domenico Gaglione¹,  Carmine Clemente¹,  Adriano Rosario Persico¹,  Christos V. Ilioudis¹,  Ian Proudler², John J Soraghan¹, ¹University of Strathclyde, ²Loughborough University

4.3          Discriminating Underwater LiDAR Target Signatures using Sparse Multi-spectral Depth Codes

Puneet S Chhabra¹, Aurora Maccarone¹, Aongus McCarthy¹, Andrew M Wallace¹, Gerald Buller¹,¹Heriot-Watt University

4.4          Efficient Range Estimation and Material Quantification from Multispectral Lidar Waveforms

Yoann Altmann¹, Aurora Maccarone¹, Abderrahim Halimi¹, Aongus McCarthy¹, Gerald Buller¹, Steve McLaughlin¹, ¹Heriot-Watt University

6.1          GMTI in circular SAR data using STAP

Emiliano Casalini¹, Daniel Henke¹, Erich H. Meier¹, ¹University of Zurich

6.2          Digital Elevation Model Aided SAR-based GMTI Processing in Urban Environments

Di Wu¹, Mehrdad Yaghoobi¹, Mike Davies¹, ¹University of Edinburgh

6.3          A Multi-Family GLRT for Detection in Polarimetric SAR Images

Luca Pallotta¹, Carmine Clemente², Antonio De Maio¹, Danilo Orlando³, ¹University of Naples Federico II, ²Strathclyde University, ³Niccolò Cusano University

6.4          A Novel Motion Compensation Approach for SAS

Salvatore Caporale¹, Yvan Petillot¹, ¹Heriot-Watt University

Industrial Presentations

Improving Signal Detection in Radio Direction Finding  Systems, Dr. David Sadler