Tracking of Noncooperative Airborne Targets Using ADS-B Signal and Radar Sensing

As the Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) system has gained wide acceptance, additional exploitations of the radioed satellite-based information are topics of current interest. One such opportunity includes the augmentation of the communication ADS-B signal with a random biphase modu...

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Main Authors: Ming-Shih Huang, Ram M. Narayanan, Yan Zhang, Arthur Feinberg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2013-01-01
Series:International Journal of Aerospace Engineering
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/521630
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Summary:As the Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) system has gained wide acceptance, additional exploitations of the radioed satellite-based information are topics of current interest. One such opportunity includes the augmentation of the communication ADS-B signal with a random biphase modulation for concurrent use as a radar signal. This paper addresses the formulation and analysis of a suitable noncooperative multitarget tracking method for the ADS-B radar system using radar ranging techniques and particle filter algorithms. In addition, the low-update-rate measurement due to the ADS-B system specification is discussed in order to provide acceptable estimation results. Simulation results show satisfactory tracking capability up to several kilometers with acceptable accuracy.
ISSN:1687-5966
1687-5974