Luke Rosenberg

This seminar describes how sea clutter models are used in the prediction of radar detection performance. Such modelling may be required at various stages in the design cycle of a radar or to make accurate performance predictions at the proposal stage of a new design, for the purposes of marketing and to make comparisons with competing systems. As a radar design develops, alternative solutions may be proposed and performance prediction modelling will play an important role in comparing their relative merits. When a radar is to be delivered to a customer, it will usually be necessary to demonstrate its performance.

Measuring the detection performance of a maritime radar is extremely difficult and modelling will inevitably play an important role, allowing trial results to be interpreted in the light of predicted performance in the prevailing conditions. For these results to have value, the radar analyst must have confidence in their accuracy. If an analytic modelling approach is taken, considerable attention to detail is required to understand and model the radar operation over a wide range of environmental conditions and viewing geometries. The models must also be able to accurately represent the effects of the radar waveforms and processing on the received signals. This level of modelling can also provide guidance on the appropriate configuration of the radar in different operational scenarios.

Biography:

Luke Rosenberg received a Bachelor's degree in electrical and electronic engineering, a Master's degree in signal and information processing, and a Ph.D. from the University of Adelaide, Australia. In 2016, he completed the Graduate Program in Scientific Leadership at the University of Melbourne. He is currently an adjunct Associate Professor with the University of Adelaide and a Senior Research Engineer at Lockheed Martin Australia, Advanced Systems & Technology. Prior to this, he worked at the Defence Science and Technology Group Australia as a research specialist in maritime radar, and in 2014, he spent 12 months with the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) working on algorithms for focusing moving scatterers in synthetic aperture radar imagery. His work covers the areas of radar image formation, classification, adaptive filtering, detection theory, and radar and clutter modelling. Dr. Rosenberg has received a number of best paper awards, the Defence Science and Technology Achievement Award for Science and Engineering Excellence in 2016 and the IEEE AESS Fred Nathanson award in 2018 for ‘Fundamental Experimental and Theoretical Work in Characterizing Radar Sea Clutter’. He is the Vice President Publications for the AESS board of governors and a member of the radar systems panel. He is a distinguished lecturer for the AESS, senior editor for the Radar Systems area in the Transactions of Aerospace and Electronic Systems, and past chair of the IEEE South Australian Section. He has over 180 publications including a book on Radar Sea Clutter: Modelling and Detection. He is an IEEE Fellow for contributions to maritime radar.

Address:Australia

Mark Davis

Biography:

Mark Davis has over 45 years experience in Government and Industry in developing technology and systems for Radar and Electronic Systems. In 2008 he established medavis consulting as a Sole Proprietorship, to assist in review and development of advanced sensor systems, with customers in Government, Industry and Small Businesses. He held senior management positions at DARPA as Deputy Director Information Exploitation Office (2006-08), Technical Director for Air Force Research Laboratory Space Based Radar Technology (1998-2006) and Program Manager in DARPA Information Systems Office for Counter CC&D technologies (1995-1998). Dr Davis also had senior Engineering and Program Management positions with General Electric Aerospace, and General Dynamics Missile Systems. His interests are in Radar and microwave system design, phased array antennas and adaptive signal processing. Dr Davis is a Life Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the Military Sensing Symposia, and Chair of the IEEE Radar Systems Panel. Within the IEEE Aerospace and Electronics Systems Society, he has been a member of the Board of Governors (2008-2013) holding positions of VP of Conferences (2010-2012) and VP of Finance (2013). Dr Davis is currently serving on the US Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, and is a member of the NASA review board on earth resource monitoring. He has received a PhD in Physics from The Ohio State University, and Bachelor and Masters Degrees in Electrical Engineering from Syracuse University. In addition to these technical duties, he has published over 75 journal and conference papers on Radar and Microwave Systems. More recently, he has authored a book Foliage Penetration Radar - Detection and Characterization of Objects under Trees published by Scitech Publishing in March 2011, and a Chapter on Principals of Modern Radar on FOPEN.

Address:United States