GNSS based passive UAV monitoring: feasibility study

Christos Ilioudis; Carmine Clemente; John Soraghan

doi:10.1049/iet-rsn.2019.0308

GNSS based passive UAV monitoring: feasibility study

Christos Ilioudis, Carmine Clemente, John Soraghan

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Abstract

As unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are becoming more accessible and easier to use, the need for a reliable and easy to deploy monitoring solution has become the subject of great importance in defence, security and commercial sectors. In this work, a novel passive bistatic radar is proposed to facilitate UAV detection and localisation by exploiting Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) as illuminators of opportunity (IO). The result of a feasibility study conducted to determine the maximum operational range of the system under different configurations as well as its parameter estimation capabilities were evaluated through simulations. To facilitate multiple satellites signals, a multiple-input single-output (MISO) approach is adapted to estimate the target’s location and velocity.

Language	English
Number of pages	9
Journal	IET Radar, Sonar and Navigation
Early online date	7 Nov 2019
DOIs	10.1049/iet-rsn.2019.0308
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 7 Nov 2019

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Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV)

Navigation

Satellites

Monitoring

Parameter estimation

Radar

Keywords

unmanned aerial vehicles
UAVs
passive bistatic radar
GNSS
Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)
radar systems

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Ilioudis, C., Clemente, C., & Soraghan, J. (2019). GNSS based passive UAV monitoring: feasibility study. IET Radar, Sonar and Navigation. https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-rsn.2019.0308

Ilioudis, Christos ; Clemente, Carmine ; Soraghan, John. / GNSS based passive UAV monitoring : feasibility study. In: IET Radar, Sonar and Navigation. 2019.

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GNSS based passive UAV monitoring : feasibility study. / Ilioudis, Christos ; Clemente, Carmine ; Soraghan, John.

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