Abstract
Research summary
This paper presents measurements of Radar Cross Section (RCS) of five Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), comprising both consumer grade and professional small drones, collected in a semi-controlled environment as a function of azimuth aspect angle, polarization and frequency in the range 8.2-18 GHz. A first-order statistical analysis of the measured RCSs is firstly reported prior to assessing the radar detection performance on both measured and bespoke simulated data (leveraging the results of the developed statistical analysis), including, as benchmark terms, the curves for non-fluctuating and Rayleigh fluctuating targets. © 2022 IET Conference Proceedings. All rights reserved.
Keywords
Aircraft detection
Antennas
Benchmarking
Radar cross section
Radar measurement
Signal detection
Statistical methods
Tracking radar
Coherent radar
Detection performance
DRONE DETECTION
MEASURED DATA
Measurements of
Performance prediction
Radar cross-sections
Radar detection
RADAR DETECTION PERFORMANCE
Radar detectors
Drones