Space-based and Airborne Ground Moving Target Indication Radar: Meta-level Tracking and Resource Management

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This project deals with surveillance applications using multifunction radars in the recently launched RADARSAT-2 space-based radar and airborne radars (such as Canada's fleet of CP140 Aurora patrol aircraft). Such multifunction radars are sophisticated sensors that can operate in multiple modes. Our aim is to develop sensor signal processing and information management algorithms for land and coastal surveillance of moving vehicles/ships. The goal is to conduct research in two important functionalities for such next-generation radar systems. (i) Meta-level tracking: Our first objective is to develop algorithms that can monitor macro-level behavior of multiple moving targets such as vehicles moving in a convoy, or a vehicle circling the perimeter of a building. (ii) The second objective is to develop sophisticated stochastic feedback control algorithms that enable the radar to adapt dynamically to its environment. That is, we will conduct research in developing algorithms so that radars can autonomously change their transmit waveforms, beam pointing directions, dwell times, etc.