PIRR 2021 Program
Wednesday 2nd February
University of Adelaide North Terrace campus map
Links to abstracts in the title of each talk; zip archive of all abstracts here.
08:00 Registration and coffee
Venue: Horace Lamb Lecture Theatre
09:00 Opening Announcements – Brian Ng, University of Adelaide and Luke Rosenberg, DST Group
09:15 Plenary 1 – Nick Stacy, Mark Preiss, DST Group, Initial Developments in Australian Space Radar Technology: The NGTF Advanced Radio Frequency Payload Research Network
09:40 Plenary 2 – Brian Ng, University of Adelaide, Adelaide University radar program
10:00 Plenary 3 – David Holdsworth, DST Group, DSTG HF radar program
SESSION 1 – Radar Systems Chair: Gordon Frazer
Venue: Horace Lamb Lecture Theatre
10:20 Bronwyn Dolman, Iain Reid, Richard Mayo, Gary Jonas and Christian Adami, Development of an L Band Wind Profiling Radar
10:40 G.J. Frazer and M.J. Young, Measuring Digital Radar Receiver Spectral Purity
11:00 Morning Tea Break (30 mins) Venue: Ingkarni Wardli Atrium
SESSION 2 – Space Surveillance Chair: David Holdsworth
Venue: Horace Lamb Lecture Theatre
11:30 Emma Heading, Si Tran Nguyen, David Holdsworth, Daniel Field and Iain Reid, Analysis of RF signatures for Space Domain Awareness using VHF radar
11:50 Brendan Hennessy, Robert Young, Mark Rutten, Steven Tingay, Stephen Howard, Ashley Summers, and Daniel Gustainis, Multistatic Space Surveillance with the Murchison Widefield Array using Passive Radar
12:10 Hamed Nosrati, Stephanie Smith, Douglas Hayman, and Shinji Horiuchi, Bi-Static Radar Interferometry for Space Debris Localisation using Australia Telescope Compact Array
12:30 Daniel J. Field, David A. Holdsworth, David Neudegg, Andrew D. MacKinnon, Andrew J. Spargo, Iain M. Reid, and Richard Mayo, RCS measurements of LEO objects using the BPST radar
12:50 Lunch (50 minutes) Venue: Ingkarni Wardli Atrium
SESSION 3 – Radar Imaging Chair: Mark Preiss
Venue: Horace Lamb Lecture Theatre
13:40 Elliot Hansen, Brian Ng, and Mark Preiss, Detection of air targets in SAR imagery
14:00 Tri-Tan Cao and Luke Rosenberg, An Improved CLEAN Algorithm for ISAR
14:20 Chow Yii Pui, Brian Ng, Luke Rosenberg and Tri-Tan Cao, Polarimetric 3D-ISAR
14:40 Weiliang Zhao, Anthony Heng, Luke Rosenberg, Si Tran Nguyen, Len Hamey and Mehmet Orgun, ISAR ship classification using transfer learning
15:00 Afternoon Tea Break (30 mins) Venue: Ingkarni Wardli Atrium
SESSION 4 – Radar Signal Processing Chair: Elias Aboutanios
Venue: Horace Lamb Lecture Theatre
15:30 William Baxter and Elias Aboutanios, Joint Radar and Communications for Frequency-Hopped MIMO Systems (Zoom)
15:50 Elias Aboutanios, A Enhanced Dual Function Radar Communications Scheme
16:10 Vaughan Clarkson, Songsri Sirianunpiboon, and Stephen Howard, Coherent Radar Carrier-Frequency Estimation in PRF Diversity
17:00 Cocktail reception (2 hours), sponsored by Rohde & Schwarz Venue: University of Adelaide club, level 4, Union building
Thursday 3rd February
University of Adelaide North Terrace campus map
Links to abstracts in the title of each talk; zip archive of all abstracts here.
08:00 Registration and coffee
09:00 Plenary 4 – James Palmer, Progress in research, development, and commercialisation at Silentium Defence
09:20 Plenary 5 – Joe Fabrizio, DST Group, DSTG Microwave radar program
09:40 Plenary 6 – Elias Aboutanios, University of New South Wales, UNSW radar program
SESSION 5 – Passive Radar Chair: Robert Young
Venue: Horace Lamb Lecture Theatre
10:00 Ben Wilcox, Rohan Leighton, Jacob Bickerton, Nathan Misaghi, David Wilson and Robert Young, Parametric Modelling of Passive Radar Systems (Zoom)
10:20 Robert Young, Brendan Hennessy, Nathan Misaghi, Daniel Gustainis and Ben Somers, Challenges in Long Range Surveillance using Passive Radar
10:40 Morning Tea Break (30 mins) Venue: Ingkarni Wardli Atrium
SESSION 6 – Radar Applications Chair: Irina Antipov
Venue: Horace Lamb Lecture Theatre
11:10 Hugh Lachlan Kennedy, Noise will be Noise
11:30 Brian Ng, Si Tran Nguyen, and Nghia Nguyen Trong, Drones Classification with Convolutional Neural Networks
11:50 Joel Younger, Imaging ice clouds at the edge of space: a novel use for wide-beam radars
12:10 Lakshminarayanan Mohana Kumar, Elias Aboutanios, and Stephen J Foster, Radar Monitoring of Steel Fibre Reinforced Concrete
12:30 B. M. Sparkes, Z. Koumi, B. W. Smith, K.J. Grant and D. Ottaway, Determining the Advantage of Quantum Radar
12:50 Lunch (50 minutes) Venue: Ingkarni Wardli Atrium
SESSION 7 – HF Radar Chair: Van Nguyen
Venue: Horace Lamb Lecture Theatre
13:40 Sandun Kodituwakku, Van K. Nguyen, and Mike D. Turley, A Robust Adaptive Doppler Processing Technique for Short Radar Dwells with Strong Clutter
14:00 Christopher Willoughby, CNN You See Me?
14:20 G. J. Frazer and C. G. Williams, Exploiting the Spatial Signature of Mutual-Coupling in HF Receive Arrays
14:40 Garry Newsam, Optimal Layouts for Large RF Arrays
15:00 Afternoon Tea Break (30 mins) Venue: Ingkarni Wardli Atrium
SESSION 8 – Detection and Tracking Chair: Luke Rosenberg
Venue: Horace Lamb Lecture Theatre
15:30 B. Ristic, D. Y. Kim, L. Rosenberg, and R. Guan, Recursive Bayesian Track-Before-Detect for Maritime Surveillance by an Airborne Radar
15:50 Brian Ng and Luke Rosenberg, Dictionary Learning for Maritime Radar Detection
16:10 Luke Rosenberg and Fabio Giovanneschi, Detection in Heterogeneous Sea Clutter using Dictionary Learning
16:30 Malcolm Wong, Elias Aboutanios and Luke Rosenberg, Target detection in low sample support maritime environments
16:50 End of PIRR 2021