A maritime harmonic radar search and rescue system using passive and active tags
- This article introduces a new maritime search and rescue system based on S-band illumination harmonic radar (HR). Passive and active tags have been developed and tested attached to life jackets and a rescue boat. This system was able to detect and range the active tags up to a range of 5800 m in tests on the Baltic Sea with an antenna input power of only 100 W. All electronic GHz components of the system, excluding the S-band power amplifier, were custom developed for this purpose. Special attention is given to the performance and conceptual differences between passive and active tags used in the system and integration with a maritime X-band navigation radar is demonstrated.
| Author: | Holger HeuermannORCiD, Thomas Harzheim, Marc MühmelORCiD |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1109/EuRAD48048.2021.00030 |
| ISBN: | 978-2-87487-061-3 |
| Parent Title (English): | 2020 17th European Radar Conference (EuRAD) |
| Publisher: | IEEE |
| Place of publication: | New York, NY |
| Document Type: | Conference Proceeding |
| Language: | English |
| Year of Completion: | 2021 |
| Date of the Publication (Server): | 2021/02/04 |
| Tag: | Frequency Doubler; Harmonic Radar; Rescue System; Tag; Transponder |
| First Page: | 73 |
| Last Page: | 76 |
| Note: | 17th European Radar Conference, 13th - 15th January 2021, Utrecht, Netherlands |
| Link: | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9337372 |
| Institutes: | FH Aachen / Fachbereich Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik |
| collections: | Verlag / IEEE |
