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La détection radar passive met à profit des émetteurs non-coopératifs, déjà présents dans l’environnement, qui transmettent des signaux de télécommunications, de type DVB-T dans l’étude présentée.Elle utilise les réflexions de ces signaux sur de potentielles cibles et les exploite comme échos radar au niveau d’un récepteur aéroporté.Ces nouveaux systèmes de détection, par nature discrets et économes en énergie et en allocation de fréquences, étendent la surveillance à la basse altitude.Si les différentes étapes des traitements classiques utilisés en radar passif terrestre (estimation du signal de référence, réjection, filtrage adapté, détection)demandent d’être réorientées sérieusement pour répondre aux contraintes liées à la réception aéroportée,il en va de même du récepteur qui doit satisfaire les exigences matérielles de la plateforme aérienne.Dans ce but, un système expérimental embarqué sur motoplanneur a été développé permettant d’acquérir des signaux réels indispensablesà la compréhension de l’impact de la propagation des signaux DVB-T.La méthode d’estimation du signal de référence proposée permet d’une part, de lutter contre les fluctuations du canal de propagation induites par les multi-trajetsen exploitant la diversité d’antenne et d’autre part, de prendre en compte les variations temporelles en s’appuyant sur la méthode BEM (Basis Expension Model).Ensuite, une analyse théorique sur la répartition du fouillis de sol est apportée.L’exploitation des signaux expérimentaux permet de la valider par une analyse dans le plan distance-Doppler et angle-Doppler.Une projection cartésienne permet de mettre en évidence des échos forts confrontés avec la vérité terrain.L’estimation du signal de référence et la connaissance de l’étalement du fouillis de sol sont les piliers fondamentaux de la détection car ces composantes représentent deux contributions à rejeter.Pour le signal de référence, une méthode classique de réjection où les coefficients du filtre sont estimés au sens des moindres carrés est mise en oeuvre.Un filtrage spatial orthogonal à la direction d’arrivée du signal de référence est ajouté afin de diminuer l’impact du bruit émis.Le large étalement en Doppler et en distance nous a conduit à rejeter le fouillis sur des périodes de corrélation plus courtes.Les travaux présentés apportent une compréhension fine de l’impact de la propagation sur les traitements de détection en radar passif aéroporté et offrent des perspectives engageantesquant à la détection de cibles de moyennes à grandes Surfaces Equivalentes Radar. / Passive radar detection benefits from non-cooperative telecommunication broadcasters, already existing in the environment, such as DVB-T broadcasters.It uses signal reflections over potential targets. An airborne receiver takes advantage of it as radar echoes.This new kind a detection system is discrete, has low energy consumption, uses already allocated frequencies and broaden radar detection to low altitudes.Due to airborne constraints, the standard signal processing steps, as the receiving system need to be adjusted.Indeed a dedicated radar has been developped in order to get experimental signal, and therefore help deepen the understanding of propagation phenomenon.The proposed reference signal estimation allows to face channel multipath induced fluctuations on the one hand, and to take into account channel time variationsthanks to Basis Expansion Model (BEM) modeling. A theoretical analysis of the clutter spread is then drawn.Experimental results confirm the expectation in the range-Doppler and angle-Doppler domain.Besides a clutter cartesian projection highlights the major reflectors, that may be confronted to the terrain truth.Reference signal estimation and clutter spread constitute two radar detection pilars, as these components have to be cancelled.So as to reject direct path, space filtering orthogonal to the direct direction is also performed to suppress the impact of the transmitted noise.Then reference signal is cancelled via a standard rejection method based on least-square filter coefficients estimation.The large Doppler and range clutter spread, lead us to reject the reference signal over shorter correlation periods.The present work gives an accurate comprehension of propagation mechanisms impact on airborne passive radar signal processing andprovides a promising perspective regarding intermediate radar cross section target detection.

This master’s thesis deals with the concept of passive multistatic radar. The radar system exploits WiFi or WiMAX transmitters as the source of radiolocation signal. The transmitters are considered non-cooperative. The master’s thesis evaluates limitations arising from utilization of WiFi or WiMAX signals. A Matlab simulator was created as a part of the thesis, which was used to verify the basic idea behind this concept. Based on the results of real-life simulations, conclusions are suggested towards a possible application of WiFi/WiMAX radar.

Devices that transmit and receive electromagnetic signals are today central to the way people communicate and acquire information from the surroundings. WiDAR, Wideband Digital Array Receiver, is the name of a new system of digital antenna array receivers, which has recently been developed at Saab in Järfälla and is the focus of this thesis. Digital antenna arrays have the benefit over conventional antennas of having their lobes steered electrically, allowing for beamforming, both in reception and transmission. The goal of the thesis has been to characterise certain signal technologies operating in the spectrum of WiDAR, and during the process learn about the limitations of digital antenna array receivers and the system. After studying the system and telecommunication technologies present in the wideband, several measurements were conducted using WiDAR in the field to gather raw data for processing in Matlab. With WiDAR having numerous channels, as well as high sampling rate, large amounts of data was received, leading to difficulties in the processing thereafter. Concluding that three types of signal technologies are certain to be found in WiDAR's spectrum, UMTS/3G, LTE/4G, and DVB-T, their respective narrowbands were studied further through the production of spectrograms of the signal data. Within each band, probability distributions were fit to the histograms of the data. Each of the signal technologies were then characterised by their respective fit to the probability distributions. This resulted in a way of identifying unknown signals from new measurement data from WiDAR. While this method could prove useful as a first step in characterisation, weaknesses such as its lack of depth in the narrowbands are discussed. For further work and the future of the system, it is suggested to e.g. explore the concepts of the multipath problem, or TDM/TDMA in the data. Ultimately, the characterisation of the found signal technologies was moderately successful, however with a sizeable list of limitations and area of improvements.

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Software parallelization has gained increasing interest since the transistor manufacturing of smaller chips within an integrated circuit has begun to stagnate. This has led to the development of new processing units with an increasing number of cores. Parallelization is an optimization technique that allows the user to utilize parallel processes in order to streamline algorithm flows. This study examines the performance benefits that a passive bistatic radar system can obtain by parallelization and code refactorization. The study focuses mainly on investigating the use of parallel instructions within a shared memory model on a Central Processing Unit (CPU) with the use of an application programming interface, namely OpenMP. Quantitative data is collected to compare the runtime of the most central algorithm in the passive radar system, namely the Extensive Cancellation Algorithm (ECA). ECA can be used to suppress unwanted clutter in the surveillance signal, which purpose is to create clear target detections of airborne objects. The algorithm on the other hand is computationally demanding, which has led to the development of faster versions such as the Sliding ECA (ECA-S). Despite the ongoing development, the algorithm is still relatively computationally demanding which can lead to long execution times within the radar system. In this study, a MATLAB implementation of ECA-S is transformed to C in order to take advantage of the fast execution time of the procedural programming language. Parallelism is introduced within the converted algorithm by the use of Intel's thread methodology and then applied within two different operating systems. The study shows that a speedup can be obtained, in the programming language C, by a factor of 24 while still ensuring the correctness of the results. The results also showed that code refactorization of a MATLAB algorithm could result in 73% faster code and that C-MEX implementations are twice as slow as a C-implementation. Finally, the study pointed out that real-time can be achieved for a passive bistatic radar system with the use of the programming language C and by using parallel instructions within a shared memory model on a CPU. / Parallellisering av mjukvara har fått ett ökat intresse sedan transistortillverkningen av mindre chip inom en integrerade krets har börjat att stagnera. Detta har lett till utveckling av moderna processorer med ett ökande antal av kärnor. Parallellisering är en optimeringsteknik vilken tillåter användaren att utnyttja parallella processer till att effektivisera algoritmflöden. Denna studie undersöker de tidsmässiga fördelar ett passivt bistatiskt radarsystem kan erhålla genom att, bland annat tillämpa parallellisering och omformning. Studien fokuserar främst på att undersöka användandet av parallella trådar inom det delade minnesutrymmet på en centralprocessor (CPU), detta med hjälp av applikationsprogrammeringsgränssnittet OpenMP. Kvantitativa jämförelser tas fram med hjälp av en av de mest centrala algoritmerna inom det passiva radarsystemet, nämligen Extensive Cancellation Algorithm (ECA). ECA kan används till att undertrycka oönskat klotter i övervakningssignalen, vilket har till syfte att skapa klara måldetektioner av luftföremål. Algoritmen är däremot beräkningstung, vilket har medfört utveckling av snabbare versioner som exempelvis Sliding ECA (ECA-S). Trots utvecklingen är algoritmen fortfarande relativt beräkningstung och kan medföra en lång exekeveringstid inom hela radarsystemet. I denna studie transformeras en MATLAB-implementation av ECA-S till C för att kunna dra nytta av den snabba exekeveringstiden i det procedurella programmeringsspråket. Parallellism införs inom den transformerade algoritmen med hjälp av Intels trådmetodik och appliceras sedan inom två olika operativsystem. Studien visar på en tidsmässig optimering i C med upp till 24 gånger snabbare exekeveringstid och bibehållen noggrannhet. Resultaten visade även på att en enklare omformning av en MATLAB-algoritm kunde resultera till 73% snabbare kod och att en C-MEX-implementation är dubbelt så långsam i jämförelse med en C-implementering. Slutligen pekade studien på att realtid kan uppnås för ett passivt bistatiskt radarsystem vid användandet av programmeringsspråket C och med utnyttjandet av parallella instruktioner inom det delade minnet på en CPU.

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