BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Australia/Adelaide BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20201004T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0930 TZOFFSETTO:+1030 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=10 TZNAME:ACDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20210404T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+1030 TZOFFSETTO:+0930 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=4 TZNAME:ACST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210317T112612Z UID:AA0C7233-A5EB-4E6D-8CEA-AD6A4A50CA1E DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Adelaide:20210315T193000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Adelaide:20210315T203000 DESCRIPTION:Dear IEEE members and guests\n\nThe next IEEE Control\, Aerospa ce and Electronic Systems (CAES) seminar will be on March 15th\, 2021 at 7 :30pm (Adelaide time).\n\nThe speaker is Dr. Azam Mehboob from the Univers ity of South Australia. He will be presenting a seminar on:\n\nWaveform Se lection for a Scanning Radar in the Maritime Environment\n\nPlease aim to join the webex meeting before hand\, so we can start on time.\n\nhttps://i eeemeetings.webex.com/ieeemeetings/onstage/g.php?MTID=e644436b540629d1596e 3806a1f2bacc7\n\nEvent number (access code): 130 215 3659\n\nFurther infor mation on this seminar and others can be found on the IEEE SA website: htt ps://r10.ieee.org/saus/\n\nRegards\n\nLuke Rosenberg\n\nIEEE SA CAES Vice Chair\n\nAbstract\n\nDetection of slow moving targets in the maritime envi ronment for a scanning radar can be challenging. The sea-clutter at low gr azing angles has non-Gaussian amplitude statistics and the time and range varying Doppler spectra which is not significantly different than Doppler shifts of the slow-moving targets. Due to this reason\, the conventional c oherent detection schemes are not very effective for targets moving with r elatively low radial velocity. The most commonly used approach is to deplo y noncoherent detectors with both pulse-to-pulse and/or scan-to-scan proce ssing. Other approaches include coherent processing for slowly scanning ra dars and pulse-to-pulse frequency agility which decorrelates the clutter\, but restricts the processing to non-coherent.\n\nThis talk will start wit h a brief overview of the sea-clutter modelling. It will then discuss the impact of these detection approaches when operating under different sea-cl utter conditions and will provide a guide for selecting the radar waveform that optimises the detection of slow moving targets. The key question tha t will be addressed is in what environmental conditions will frequency agi lity offer improved performance over coherent detection and what is the op timal choice of pulse-to-pulse and scan-to-scan integration lengths?\n\nBi ography\n\nAzam Mehboob completed his B.Eng degree in Electrical and Telec ommunication Engineering from National University of Science and Technolog y in 2005\, M.S. degree in Telecommunication and Networks from Iqra Univer sity in 2013\, and PhD in Information Communication Technology from the Un iversity of South Australia in 2020. During PhD\, his research focus was o n designing highly spectrally-efficient transmission techniques for future earth observation satellite downlinks. He is currently a Research Fellow at the University of South Australia where his work involves sea-clutter m odelling and radar waveform design for optimal target detection in low gra zing-angle and high-sea-state situations.\n\nHe has 13 years industry of e xperience in signal processing and wireless communication system design. E arlier in his career\, he worked as a Design Engineer at the Centre for Ad vanced Research in Engineering from 2003 to 2008 before co-founding a comm unication and embedded system company Renzym in 2008. During his professio nal career\, he has designed waveforms for MIMO-OFDM systems\, VHF/HF digi tal tactical radios\, satellite modems\, telemetry systems\, ground survei llance and acoustic radars. His core expertise are in signal detection\, s ignal constellation optimization\, digital predistortion\, carrier and tim ing synchronization\, radar signal processing\, MIMO-OFDM system design an d automatic gain control.\n\nVirtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/261 149 LOCATION:Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/261149 ORGANIZER:luke.rosenberg@ieee.org SEQUENCE:2 SUMMARY:Waveform Selection for a Scanning Radar in the Maritime Environment URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/261149 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p>Dear IEEE members and guests</p>\n<p>The n ext IEEE Control\, Aerospace and Electronic Systems (CAES) seminar will be on March 15<sup>th</sup>\, 2021 at 7:30pm (Adelaide time).</p>\n<p>The sp eaker is Dr. Azam Mehboob from the University of South Australia. He will be presenting a seminar on:</p>\n<p><strong>Waveform Selection for a Scann ing Radar in the Maritime Environment</strong></p>\n<p>Please aim to join the webex meeting before hand\, so we can start on time.</p>\n<p><a href=" https://ieeemeetings.webex.com/ieeemeetings/onstage/g.php?MTID=e644436b540 629d1596e3806a1f2bacc7">https://ieeemeetings.webex.com/ieeemeetings/onstag e/g.php?MTID=e644436b540629d1596e3806a1f2bacc7</a></p>\n<p>Event number (a ccess code): 130 215 3659</p>\n<p>Further information on this seminar and others can be found on the IEEE SA website: <a href="https://r10.ieee.org/ saus/">https://r10.ieee.org/saus/</a></p>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Regards</p>\ n<p>Luke Rosenberg</p>\n<p>IEEE SA CAES Vice Chair</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n<p ><strong>Abstract</strong></p>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Detection of slow movin g targets in the maritime environment for a scanning radar can be challeng ing. The sea-clutter at low grazing angles has non-Gaussian amplitude stat istics and the time and range varying Doppler spectra which is not signifi cantly different than Doppler shifts of the slow-moving targets. Due to th is reason\, the conventional coherent detection schemes are not very effec tive for targets moving with relatively low radial velocity. The most comm only used approach is to deploy noncoherent detectors with both pulse-to-p ulse and/or scan-to-scan processing. Other approaches include coherent pro cessing for slowly scanning radars and pulse-to-pulse frequency agility wh ich decorrelates the clutter\, but restricts the processing to non-coheren t.</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>This talk will start with a brief overview of t he sea-clutter modelling. It will then discuss the impact of these detecti on approaches when operating under different sea-clutter conditions and wi ll provide a guide for selecting the radar waveform that optimises the det ection of slow moving targets. The key question that will be addressed is in what environmental conditions will frequency agility offer improved per formance over coherent detection and what is the optimal choice of pulse-t o-pulse and scan-to-scan integration lengths?</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>&nbs p\;</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n<p><strong>Biography</strong></p>\n<p><strong>Aza m Mehboob</strong> completed his B.Eng degree in Electrical and Telecommun ication Engineering from National University of Science and Technology in 2005\, M.S. degree in Telecommunication and Networks from Iqra University in 2013\, and PhD in Information Communication Technology from the Univers ity of South Australia in 2020. During PhD\, his research focus was on des igning highly spectrally-efficient transmission techniques for future eart h observation satellite downlinks. He is currently a Research Fellow at th e University of South Australia where his work involves sea-clutter modell ing and radar waveform design for optimal target detection in low grazing- angle and high-sea-state situations.</p>\n<p>He has 13 years industry of e xperience in signal processing and wireless communication system design. E arlier in his career\, he worked as a Design Engineer at the Centre for Ad vanced Research in Engineering from 2003 to 2008 before co-founding a comm unication and embedded system company Renzym in 2008. During his professio nal career\, he has designed waveforms for MIMO-OFDM systems\, VHF/HF digi tal tactical radios\, satellite modems\, telemetry systems\, ground survei llance and acoustic radars. His core expertise are in signal detection\, s ignal constellation optimization\, digital predistortion\, carrier and tim ing synchronization\, radar signal processing\, MIMO-OFDM system design an d automatic gain control.</p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR