Radar Systems

• Automotive radar

• Ground to air surveillance

• Surveillance of space radar

• Naval and maritime surveillance

• Airborne surveillance

• Coastal surveillance

• Fire control radar

• Over-the-horizon radar

• Passive radar (coherent)

• Space radar

• Air-traffic control

• Distributed and multi-static radar

• Meteorological radar

• Ballistic and cruise missile defence radar

• Secondary radar

• Multifunction, active / passive RF-EW systems

• Common aperture systems

• LPI radar

• Networks of sensors

• Multiplatform / multisite systems

• ECM / ECCM/ ESM

• Counter-stealth

• History of radar and radar techniques

Remote Sensing

• SAR modes for 2D and interferometric SAR

• Distributed / bistatic or multistatic systems

• Innovative SAR concepts

• Maritime Situational Awareness (MSA)

• Oceanographic radar

Target Imaging and Aided Target Recognition

• Multi-channel multi-static ISAR

• Radar tomography

• High-resolution narrowband radar imaging

• Compressive sensing based target imaging

• Auto-focusing techniques

• Distributed MIMO radar imaging

• Passive radar imaging

• Advanced target classification techniques

• Sensor fusion for target identification

Emerging Radar Applications

• Indoor radar

• Gesture detection and tracking

• Sensors for autonomous systems

• Autonomous automobiles

• Radar and drones

• Mine detection

• Environment monitoring

• Pollution detection

• Docking aids

• Surveillance of runways / detection of debris

• Sense and avoid

• Monitoring in the home

Emerging Technologies

• Time and frequency sources and distribution

• Synchronisation

• Quantum radar

• Passive detection and location

• Millimetre radar / radiometry

• Multi-band radar

• Ultra-wide band radar

• Laser radar

   

• Machine learning for radar

• Novel human machine interface

• High-power solid state

• RF photonics

• Superconducting oscillators and filters

• MEMS for radar applications

• Conformal, non-standard antennas

• Bio-inspired radars

• Health monitoring radars

• Radar entomology

Waveform Design, Beamforming and Signal and Data Processing

• Waveform design

• Multi-input multi-output waveforms and systems

• Adaptive waveforms

• Adaptive beamforming

• Knowledge aided adaptive processing

• Multi-frequency systems

• Multi-polarisation techniques

• Clutter rejection

• Jamming rejection

• Detection

• CFAR

• Tracking (after / before detection)

• Waveform diversity

Advanced Sub-systems and Technologies

• Time and frequency reference systems

• Direct-sampling clock distribution

• New antenna concepts

• Wideband antennas and radomes

• Antenna calibration

• Frequency / angular selective structures

• RF filtering

• Future T/R modules

• High-speed analogue to digital converters

• RF modular architectures

• Integrated modular avionics

• Reconfigurable processing architectures

• Benefits of civilian technologies (COTS)

Radar Management Techniques

• Cognitive radar

• Radar beam scheduling and planning

• Multifunction radar / waveform management

• Data fusion

• Resource allocation

• Compliance with regulations

• Spectrum out-of-band emission control

• Multi-criteria optimisation

• Networks of sensors (that include radar)

Modelling and Simulation

• Performance prediction

• Virtual prototyping

• Environment modelling

• Performance evaluation

• System modelling

Radar Environment and Phenomenology

• Propagation

• Foliage penetration

• Ionospheric propagation

• Target and clutter signatures

• Low observable design

• Micro-Doppler signatures and techniques