12th Annual Military Radar Conference 2014


 

Military Radar 2014 promised a highly valuable opportunity to learn about the latest military radar systems and subsystems, their integration onto platforms and military applications.
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28 - 30 October, 2014

Kensington Close Hotel, London, United Kingdom

12th Annual Military Radar Conference

Defence IQ’s Military Radar Conference returns on the 28 - 30 October in London for its 12th annual installment. Always a firm fixture for leading international military, industry and research institutes, Military Radar 2014 promises a highly valuable opportunity to learn about the latest military radar systems and subsystems, their integration onto platforms and military applications.

Discussing key issues at the forefront of the military radar community, the conference will investigate achieving a multi-mission capability, advancing signals processing with more powerful and compact radar systems, and the technological developments necessary for operating in new challenging environments such as A2/AD, congested/contested scenarios. Emerging technologies such as cognitive radar will also be explored.

With a holistic insight into the military radar space, presentations will be given by prime contractors, military end users and research scientists to help you gain a full understanding of the up-to-the-minute technologies and requirements.

 

Top Reasons to Attend:

  • Hear directly from HQ NORAD about the operational requirements of a multi-system radar, and weigh up its benefits in comparison to deploying multiple integrated platforms
  • Develop adaptive and autonomous systems that are rigorous enough to meet the minimal fail rates required by military operators, and continue to work towards the application of a truly cognitive radar system
  • Explore how QinetiQ are leveraging advances in signal processing  that can help to reduce clutter and identify emerging and low-frequency threats in a congested air space
  • Discover the critical advances in ELINT and Electronic Warfare, and analyse how advances in MIMO radar can be used to safeguard your capabilities against jamming and stealth technologies
  • Understand how the Fraunhofer Institute is working to implement a networked radar system, which takes maximum advantage of multiple capabilities to enhance domain awareness and increase the range of coverage
  • Establish an effective procurement strategy by exploring the latest innovations in radar technology and research

Pricing & Discounts

Package Standard Price
Platinum Package (2 day conference Workshop Post event presentations and audio on b2bshop.com) £2499
Silver Package (2 day conference Workshop ) £2299
Bronze Package (2 conference days) £1999
 

End user: Military / Government

Package Standard Price
Platinum Package (2 day conference Workshop Post event presentations and audio on b2bshop.com) £1099
Silver Package (2 day conference Workshop ) £899
Bronze Package (2 conference days) £699
 

* To qualify for discounts, bookings must be received with payment by the discount deadline. Only one discount/offer applicable per person.

Add Workshop Day to any Main Conference Pass

Please note:

  • All 'Early Bird' discounts require payment at time of registration and before the cut-off date in order to receive any discount.
  • Any discounts offered (including team discounts) must also require payment at the time of registration.
  • All discount offers cannot be combined with any other offer.

Please view our registration policy for full information about payment, cancellation, postponement, substitution and discounts.

 


An aside:
My partner works as a radar algorithm systems engineer for Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems (SAS), the leading provider of radar sensor systems. He attended the 2014 Military Radar Conference in London while I was planning a move from Philadelphia to El Segundo, CA where Raytheopn has its corporate offices. I was going to miss my work at room service 360 where for the past three years I assisted both individual customers and interior design firms in their selection of stunning contemporary Italian furniture and room accessories. Sure, it's easy to look at designer Italian furniture online, but when you want to make a $10,000 investment is a Rigoletto leather sectional sofa by Cierr, or a $5000.00+ Ramos extension dining table by Bontempi Casaor, or a $7000.00 Sayonara leather bed by Gamma Arredamenti, I believe it is better to go to the store's showroom to see the actual piece. My partner returned from the conference excited about the Selex ES range of fire control, surveillance and multi-role AESA airborne radar systems that were discussed. He was particularly enthusiastic about a pre conference workshop he attended that gave a broad overview of the mathematical and practical aspects of multi-channel radar signal processing and radar tracking overview. I was glad he had such a great conference, but I needed him to return to the mundane world where some practical answers regarding the move were required!

Jump ahead to 2020. Six years later we are now in NYC. What a time to arrive just before the Covid 19 pandemic shut the city down. My partner took a job at Lockheed Martin. His position is highly technical and focused on electronic warfare; RF emitters and antennas, their use and limitations; and the computing systems that are used in this domain. Don't ask beyond that description. It's way beyond me. I design websites now for small to medium businesses who want an online presence. Right now I am taking direction from an expert SEO who is one of the principals of NYC SEO ZEN. My client has hired this firm to increase traffic on their site via the organic search and to assist in creating ad campaigns on Google, Pinterest and Facebook. The other principal of NYC SEO ZEN is a social media expert. I am learning so much working with this team. Thank goodness I can work from home. Life in NYC after the start of the pandemic last spring has been surreal. I think a great portion of the US along with the rest of the world is waiting for a vaccine so we can return to a more "normal" life. I wonder if the 2021 Military Radar Conference will be virtual or an in person event.




Pre Conference Workshop

 

9:30

The aim of this workshop is to give a broad overview of the mathematical and practical aspects of multi-channel radar signal processing and radar tracking. It starts with a brief review of the basic concepts of linear algebra, stochastic processes that are needed to fully understand much of the literature in the field. Wiener filter theory is then used to study problems in adaptive array processing and space-time adaptive processing and multichannel SAR-MTI. The important problem in practice is the estimation of the interference covariance matrix, which is discussed next. This is followed by a discussion of salient aspects of detection theory, parameter estimation, and radar tracking. We conclude with a brief summary of some of the recent research directions in the field.

  •     Mathematical Preliminaries
  •     Adaptive Array Processing
  •     Space-time Adaptive Processing and SAR-MTI
  •     Covariance Matrix Estimation
  •     Detection and Parameter Estimation
  •     Nonlinear Filtering and Radar Tracking
  •     Miscellaneous Topics

Dr Bhashyam Balaji

Senior Research Scientist
DRDC Ottawa

 

13:30 Small Target detection techniques and applications: An overview

 

Detection of low Radar Cross section (RCS) targets (e.g small boats)immersed in Sea clutter has always been a challenge. But there is a criticalrequirement to detect intruders (slow moving small boats) entering into theterritorial waters, UAVs and also detection of submarine periscopes exposedjust above the water surface. Of recently, birds flying at critical lowaltitudes above the ground, have become potential aviation hazards too. Allthese targets have considerably small RCS with weak reflected power and maskedby strong sea clutter (at high sea states) /ground clutter returns.

They exhibit low Doppler frequencies and conventional Dopplerdetection processes used in surveillance system may not always be used due todwell length limitations to get sufficient Doppler information and sea returnshaving the same velocity range as that of the targets. Other options open to usare various Track-before-detect methods like Dynamic programming, ParticleFilters, MHT (Multi-hypothesis Tracking) etc,.pulse-to-pulse and scan-to-scanintegration techniques coupled with distribution-free CFAR supported byK-distributed clutter modelling research outcomes.

Als oin recent times, several research outcomes have shown considerable improvementin the detectability of weak targets in heavy sea clutter with netted radarbased detection processes featuring dataanalysis at varied aspect angles of the same target, thanks to the availabilityof low cost marine radar systems in the market.

This tutorial will provide an overview of the detection theory andalgorithms related to small target detection with illustrations and models. Itwill also highlight further studies and research tasks undertaken withpotential applications that are envisaged by the radar community in this area.The delivery of the tutorial is aimed for 3.0 hours with a brief interactivesession.

Topics covered will include:

  • Targetdetection theory

  • SmallTarget Detection Techniques

  • Recentadvanced STD techniques

  • STD withdistributed sensors

  • H/Wrefinement for optimum detection performance

  • Simulation/Modellingand algorithm development environment

 

Radar Analyst, Microwave Radar Branch National Security & ISR Division
Defence Science and Technology Organisation
 

 



Conference Day One

 

8:30 Coffee & Registration

 
 

9:00 Chairman's Opening Remarks

 
 

9:10 AESA based multi-function RF system design to operate within an anti-access/area denial contested/congested environment

 
  • AESA MFRFS developments
  • Challenges of operation within an anti-access/area denial contested/congested (AA/AD CC) environment
  • Cognitive RF system R&D overview and next steps

Dr Stephen Moore
Radar Principal Scientist
DSTL

 

9:50 The latest advances in the Selex ES range of fire control, surveillance and multi-role AESA airborne radar systems

 
  • An outline of the key technologies that form the basis of the ES range of fire control, surveillance and multi-role AESA airborne radar systems
  • Offering a new level of situational awareness with the Raven ES-05
  • Selex ES vision for the future development of AESA radar
 

Dr Mark Smith
VP Capabilities and Chief Technology Officer
, Radar and Advanced Targeting
Selex ES

 

10:30 Coffee & Networkin

 
 

11:00 AESA Technology Trends and Evolution

 
  • Introducing Northrop Grumman’s family of AESA multi-mission radar solutions from sea to outer space
  • Mission processing, ground systems and datalink interfaces to link the various domains
  • Developmental themes for AESA architectures in the near future
 

Name TBC
Northrop Grumman
Electronic Systems

 

11:40 The TRACER radar: high resolution, penetrating radar detects, geo-locates and communicates threats

 
  • An overview of TRACERL a lightweight,  low-frequency synthetic-aperture radar (SAR)
  • How the dual band (UHF/VHF) SAR can peer through foliage, rain, darkness, dust storms or atmospheric haze to provide real-time, high-quality tactical ground imagery, anytime it is needed, day or night
  • Incorporating data link technology to allow airborne processed results to be down-linked to ground stations immediately
  • How does Lockheed Martin see the future of radar technology?
 

Name TBC
Lockheed
Martin

 

12:20 Holographic RadarTM –Target Centric Surveillance

 

The presentation describes Holographic Radar (HR), a new paradigm in persistent wide area surveillance. By using a modular, static, staring array to create a continuous, concurrent 3D surveillance volume, it eliminates the need to interrogate targets in sequence, enabling more intelligent characterisation and classification of targets of interest.

The inherent information content provided by HR has opened up new capabilities in situation awareness and describes how an HR sensor can be used for multiple, previously separate functions.

Operating in L Band and with the ability to use the same operating frequency for networked surveillance solutions, HR also meets future Spectrum Release requirements. The presentation will conclude with a review of how a networked HR installation offers an extended but cost effective solution for a variety of wide area military surveillance requirements.

 

 

Dr Gordon Oswald
Chief Technology Officer
Aveillant

 

12:50 Networking Lunch

 
 

13:50 Belgian ground surveillance radar programme: present and future

 
  • Realised radar upgrade projects (PSR and SSR)
  • Wind farm mitigation techniques
  • Future implementations and radar development plans for the Belgian Defence
 

Captain Sil De Gang
Material Manager Surveillance & Navigation Systems
Belgian Defence Forces

 

14:30 From military operational requirements to technical achievements, the Ground Master and the Multi Function Radar families, a global success

 
  • The operational basis: What have been the French Air Force operational requirements that have led to the SR3D platform technology
  • The development of the SR3D platform. How THALES defined this new technology, what is this technology made and how did we develop a new line of products?
  • The success of the GM family which is THALES answer with its SR3D technology to current and future operational requirements in many countries
  • The way ahead: MFR radars. Where do we want to go to?
 

Gen (rtd.) Pierre Niclot
Military Adviser/Direction BD & Sales
Thales Air Systems/Thales Raytheon Systems

 
 

Peter Terpstra
Radars GM/GMR Management, Surface Radars
THALES AIR SYSTEMS

 

15:10 The Alarm Radar, a unique automated staring array radar for detection of low flying rockets, low trajectory rounds and difficult air targets such as micro UAVs

 
  • Introduction and outline of the initial concept of operation of this unique radar
  • Application of the radar for micro UAV detection
  • Selected performance results for low flying rockets, low trajectory rounds and micro UAVs data  
 
 

Dr Stephen Harman
Fellow, ISR Sensors
QinetiQ

 

15:50 Coffee & Networking

 
 

16:20 Canadian Forces Imaging Radar System

 
  • Updates from the recent procurement of Canada’s imaging radar system
  • The technical challenges faced, and how they were overcome
  • The future development of the Canadian Forces radar systems
 

Major Wesley Oke

Block III System Engineering Manager,
Project Management Office Aurora
Department of National Defence

 

17:00 Airborne Radar Signal Processing: A Multisensor Data Fusion Perspective

 
  • Outlining the challenge and complications in providing situational awareness from a multi-sensor suite
  • The possibilities offered by modern phased array radar systems for improved situational awareness
  • The inevitable need for multi-source data fusion forcing the need for a new approach to radar signal processing and outputs
  • A discussion of the practical issues that arise in multi-sensor data fusion

Dr Bhashyam Balaji
Senior Research Scientist
DRDC Ottawa

 

17:40 Chair's Close and End of Day One

 

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Conference Day Two

 

8:30 Coffee & Registration

 
 

9:00 Chairman's Opening Remarks

 
 

9:10 The current radar systems and requirements for the UK’s Type 45 Destroyer

 
  • An overview of the Type 45’s advanced radar and sensor suite, including the SAMPSON AESA multifunction radar and the S1850M long range radar as part of the sophisticated PAAMS air defence system
  • How does the Type 45’s radar system provide tactical advantage?
  • Current requirements and areas for development to advance the Type 45 surveillance, target detection and fire control capabilities
 
Lieutenant Commander Sean Travethan
Type 45 Requirements Manager, DES;
UK MoD
 

9:50 MESAR, Sampson and Radar Technology for BMD

 
  • 30 years of UK advanced radar development
  • Sampson’s recent trials successes
  • Land based MFR’s for BMD
 
Bill Stafford
Technical Manager (BMD & Sensors)
BAE Systems Maritime Services
 

10:30 Coffee & Networking

 
 

11:00 Military radar challenges in Norway: aspects of new capabilities and technological achievements

 
  • Military radar challenges as seen from Norway, across platforms and branches
  • Current research areas and capabilities being advanced by FFI with a focus on surveillance radar
  • Working with the Norwegian Forces for upcoming radar requirements and procurement plans
 
Karl Erik Olsen
Head of Research Group
FFI
 

11:40 The introduction of new technologies and design for SAAB’s five new radars for total domain awareness across land and sea

 
  • An outline of the technologies being introduced for the new family of radar systems, including for the new AESA radar variants for land and sea
  • Using leap-ahead design techniques to extend performance and capability
  • Advancing SAAB’s  surface-based radars to be highly-effective against multiple ‘difficult’ air targets in the most dense and challenging operational environments
 
Name TBC
SAAB
 

12:20 PANEL DISCUSSION: SPECTRUM RELEASE

 

Spectrum is a critical and fundamental requirement, not only in supporting technology across the range of industrial and commercial sectors, but also in enabling the infrastructure of the social framework of modern life. As a finite resource it has been managed through an institutional approach based on custom and practice within an international regulatory framework. However, as the speed of technological advance and the rate at which systems can be deployed continues to increase, coupled with the growing demand for mobile communications and social media, the need to find new ways of managing spectrum and making it available for commercial and social exploitation has been heightened. In 2005 the Treasury sponsored an independent audit of spectrum holdings and the subsequent recommendations led to an action plan across Government Departments and Regulators to make spectrum management more efficient.  However, it was recognized that there was significant opportunity to do more and, following a similar initiative in the US, the Government instigated work to reinvigorate effective spectrum management to help boost the UK economy.

In March 2011, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) published a paper entitled “Enabling UK growth – Releasing public spectrum” which set out the Government’s aspiration of making 500MHz of spectrum below 5GHz available by 2020 to meet the growing demand, particularly for mobile broadband. As the public sector was a significant user of spectrum with approximately 50% of spectrum below 15GHz allocated to aviation, defence maritime and emergency services, the paper set out a strategy to identify key bands for release. This initiated work to deliver the release target through a series of work streams involving MOD, DfT, CAA and MCA to consider the identified bands and address the specific issues relating to their potential release.

In taking forward release proposals, there are significant challenges to be addressed which include the need to continue meeting the operational requirements for the services and organisations for which the bands were originally allocated. In addition, in many sectors, especially aviation and maritime, there are binding international agreements and obligations concerning spectrum use. Finally, creating an opportunity to release spectrum is not simply a database exercise to re-assign allocations to create capacity – the characteristics of systems in use are governed by many design factors constrained by the laws of physics and making changes will be technically challenging and potential very costly. Decisions cannot be taken lightly and significant work is necessary to ensure the release can be delivered safely and cost effectively. That said, the potential rewards are significant and change is needed if we are to ensure we have really effective spectrum management to meet the demands of the future.

We are entering a very challenging period for spectrum use and debate on the issues, to increase awareness and understanding, is key in broadening the engagement on this critical finite resource.

 

 
Dr Gordon Oswald
Chief Technology Officer
Aveillant
 
 
Andy Knill
Former Head of Surveillance and Spectrum Management
CAA
 

13:20 Networking Lunch

 
 

14:30 Airbus Defence and Space Passive Radar – Technology Meets Market

 
  • An outline of Airbus DS passive radar capabilities
  • Matching of the technology to customer use cases
  • Outlook on future passive radar technology enhancements
 
Frank Bernhardt
Passive Radar Team Leader
Airbus Defence & Space
 

15:10 NetRAD / NextRAD Maritime Multstatic Radar

 
  • Introduction to University College London Radar research group and background
  • The  NetRAD system - Its design, capability and limitations
  • Introducing NextRAD – system design and specification: what are the advantages of this over the previous system and what planned measurement campaigns are coming up?
  • The advantages of multistatic radar from real data generated
  • Future direction of multistatic radar and the opportunities presented for military applications
 
Matthew Ritchie
Research Associate
University College London
 

15:50 Transmitter Adaptivity in Space Time Adaptive Processing (STAP)

 
  • Present  automated extraction and classification of OFDM based reflected communications signals using computer vision and neural network based techniques
  • Proposing a novel way of extracting the communications signals from a noisy spectrogram using a combination of morphological operations in conjunction with a fuzzy neighbourhood thresholding based bidirectional self-organizing neural network (BDSONN)
  • Results showing about 98% detection is achieved at 5% false alarm at very low SNR outperforming traditional  techniques
  •  
 
Mathini Sellathurai
Reader in Digital Communications and Signal Processing
Herriot-Watt University
 

16:30 Coffee & Networking

 
 

17:00 Advances in radar imaging for military applications

 
  • An analysis of recent advances with: super resolution ISAR, compressive sensing ISAR (CS-ISAR) , 3D-ISAR, polarimetric ISAR imaging (POL-ISAR) and passive bistatic radar imaging P-ISAR
  • The opportunities these advances will bring for military applications
 
Professor Fabrizio Berizzi
Associate Professor of Telecommunication Engineering
University Of Pisa
 

17:40 Research advances on radar automatic classification of moving and stationary military targets

 
  • Introducing Cranfield Defence and Space current research projects aimed at improving radar automatic classification of targets
  • Target classification of stationary targets and target  classification of moving targets by Doppler signatures
  • The results of the latest experimental trials and drawn conclusions
Alessio Balleri
Radar Lecturer - Sensors
Cranfield University
 

18:20 Chair's Close & End of Conference

 



 

 

Speakers

 

Lieutenant Commander Sean Travethan
Type 45 Requirements Manager, DE&S;
UK MoD

 

Major Wesley Oke
Block III System Engineering Manager, Project Management Office Aurora
Department of National Defence

 
Captain Sil De Gang
Material Manager Surveillance & Navigation Systems
Belgian Defence Forces
 

Dr Stephen Moore
Radar Principal Scientist
DSTL

 
Karl Erik Olsen
Head of Research Group
FFI
 

Dr Mark Smith
VP Capabilities and Chief Technology Officer, Radar and Advanced Targeting
Selex ES

 
Bill Stafford
Technical Manager (BMD & Sensors)
BAE Systems Maritime Services
 

Gen (rtd.) Pierre Niclot
Military Adviser/Direction BD & Sales
Thales Air Systems/Thales Raytheon Systems

 
Peter Terpstra
Radars GM/GMR Management, Surface Radars
THALES AIR SYSTEMS
 

Frank Bernhardt
Passive Radar Team Leader
Airbus Defence & Space

 
Dr Gordon Oswald
Chief Technology Officer
Aveillant
 

Dr Stephen Harman
Fellow, ISR Sensors
QinetiQ

 

Name TBC
Northrop Grumman
Electronic Systems

 

Name TBC
Lockheed
Martin

 
Name TBC
SAAB
 
 

Professor Fabrizio Berizzi
Associate Professor of Telecommunication Engineering
University Of Pisa

 

Dr Bhashyam Balaji
Senior Research Scientist
DRDC Ottawa

 
Krishna Venkataraman
Radar Analyst , Microwave Radar Branch National Security & ISR Division
Defence Science and Technology Organisation
 

Andy Knill
Former Head of Surveillance and Spectrum Management
CAA

 

Dr Mathini Sellathurai
Reader in Digital Communications and Signal Processing
Herriot-Watt University

 

Daniel O'Hagan
Bi-Static Radar
Fraunhofer-FHR

 

Matthew Ritchie
Research Associate
University College London

 
Alessio Balleri
Radar Lecturer - Sensors
Cranfield University

 



 

 

Venue & Accommodation

Kensington Close Hotel

Wrights Lane, Kensington
London,
W8 5SP, United Kingdom
Website:http://www.kensingtonclosehotel.com/default-en.html
Phone: 0870 751 7770

 

Accommodation

 

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Meet the Speakers

Early-confirmed speakers:

Dr Clayton Stewart
Professor, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering
UCL
 
Mr Asif Anwar
Director, Strategic Technologies Practice
Strategy Analytics
 
Professor Krzysztof Kulpa
Signal Processing Specialist, Institute of Electronical Engineering
University of Warsaw
 
Mr Mehmet Ayar
Director, Radar Systems Programmes
Turkish SSM
 
Dr Stephen Moore
Principal Radar Scientist, DSTL
UK MoD
 
Dr Matthew Ritchie
Research Associate, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering
UCL
 
Mr Krishna Venkataraman
Radar Specialist, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Branch
DSTO, Australian Department of Defence
 
Dr Bill Dawber
Chief Scientist, Maritime Systems
QinetiQ
 
Dr Alessio Balleri
Sensors Group, Centre for Electronic Warfare
Cranfield University
 
Mr Ilias Konsoulas
Director, Maintenance
Hellenic Air Force
 
Mr Albert Huizing
Principal Scientist, Radar Technology
TNO


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