Job Description

The proposed research addresses the design, evaluation and experimental validation of innovative radar techniques for the reliable detection and location of slow and weak moving targets and the monitoring of atmospheric turbulence in heavy clutter environment, using advantages of high (metric) range resolution, polarization diversity, and multiple simultaneous transmissions (MIMO).

The following activities will be performed:

· Development and analysis of the algorithm(s) for detection and angular location of small/weak moving targets in clutter, with adequate antenna waveform coding and space-time adaptive processing;
· Analysis and improvement of existing models and measurements for wind and wake vortex monitoring with high resolution radars;
· Design and experimentation of radar demonstrators for outdoor validation of the concepts, and prediction of operational performances.

The expected results should cover a broad range of applications, such as situation awareness in the defense and security applications, traffic control radars - both automotive and infrastructure-based (mounted on highways, crossroads, bridges), remote sensing applications using SAR, radar monitoring of atmospheric wind, turbulence, and precise surveillance of meteorological hazards.
These projects have triggered interest of the Dutch industry, which will participate in the research and contribute to the study by making available operational radars for the data acquisition, thus complementing the available radars at TU Delft. They are also part of a European project dealing with wind and wake-vortex hazards monitoring for air traffic control. The researcher will use state-of-the-art radar facilities, developed recently by TUD and projects’ partners, work in a very international team connected to the main academic and industrial actors in the field.

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