South Africa is currently struggling to deal with a significant poaching and livestock theft problem. This work is concerned with the detection and classification of ground based targets using radar micro- Doppler signatures to aid in the monitoring of borders, nature reserves and farmlands. The research starts of by investigating the state of the art of ground target classification. Different radar systems are investigated with respect to their ability to classify targets at different operating frequencies. Finally, a Gaussian Mixture Model Hidden Markov Model based (GMM-HMM) classification approach is presented and tested in an operational environment. The GMM-HMM method is compared to methods in the literature and is shown to achieve reasonable (up to 95%) classification accuracy, marginally outperforming existing ground target classification methods. / Dissertation (MEng)--University of Pretoria, 2017. / Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering / MEng / Unrestricted
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:up/oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/66252 |
| Date | January 2017 |
| Creators | Van Eeden, Willem Daniel |
| Contributors | De Villiers, Johan Pieter, vaneeden.willem@gmail.com |
| Publisher | University of Pretoria |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Dissertation |
| Rights | © 2018 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. |
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