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Conference Guide RadarConf 2016 2016 IEEE Radar Conference (RadarConf) May 2-6, 2016 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA TABLE OF CONTENTS Welcome Message from General Chair . 1 Welcome Message from Technical Program Chair . 3 Welcome Message from AESS RSP Chair . 4 Welcome Message from Philadelphia’s Mayor . 5 Organizing Committee . 6 Technical Review Committee Members . 9 Session Chairs . 10 Radar Systems Panel . 11 Plenary Speakers . 12 Banquet Address . 18 AESS Awards and Fellows . 20 Corporate Supporters . 27 Exhibitors . 28 Student Paper Competition Finalists . 29 Women in Radar Networking and Mentoring Event . .30 Tutorials . 31 Advertisements . 63 Conference Agenda . 66 Technical Program Details . Hotel Layout . 10170 WELCOME FROM THE GENERAL CHAIR Joseph G. Teti, Jr. General Chair, 2016 IEEE Radar Conference It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to the historic city of Philadelphia to participate in the 2016 IEEE Radar Conference. This year’s conference continues the success of past conferences with an excellent technical program with contributions from the national and international community. The technical program opens with a plenary session of invited speakers that will feature the Philadelphia region’s pioneering and ongoing contributions to the art of radar. The balance of the program is also rich in technical content and well organized in thematic parallel and poster sessions consistent with our conference theme Enabling Technologies for Advances in Radar. In addition, our technical program continues with the important tradition of a student poster paper competition that includes winner recognition during Thursday’s lunch program. In summary, this year’s program will both inform on recent accomplishments, and stimulate creative thinking for future advances in our field. Our technical program is complimented nicely with a strong set of tutorials that range from introductory to advanced topics. We hope you take advantage of this important learning opportunity to strengthen your understanding of radar fundamentals or expand the breadth of your knowledge in advanced and emerging topics. The technical program and scope of the tutorials would have made Philadelphia’s most prominent scholar, Benjamin Franklin, very proud. Social activities at this year’s conference include a Women in Radar Networking Lunch on Tuesday, an Exhibitor Reception Tuesday evening, and our Banquet Wednesday evening. The Banquet program begins with a reception featuring live entertainment from the uniquely Philadelphian Fralinger String Band, followed by dinner, the award ceremony and keynote address. This year’s award ceremony features the presentation of the first Robert T. Hill Award for the best Ph.D. Dissertation. Our banquet program concludes with a keynote address from Dr. Vijay Kumar, Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Kumar’s research in robotics is world renowned, and his talk entitled Flying Robots: Beyond UAVs will be both entertaining and educational. Apart from the usual conference activities, our conference committee has prepared a Guest Program that enables participants to experience the historical and cultural attractions that are 1 both world class and unique to the city of Philadelphia. We also hope you consider either arriving early or extending your stay to further enjoy the charm of the city, and its many cultural and culinary offerings. This year’s conference would not have been possible without the sponsorship of the IEEE AESS and the Philadelphia section of the IEEE, dedicated work of the organizing committee, enthusiastic participation from exhibitors, and generous support from industry. It particular, we are very grateful to have received premier corporate support from Lockheed Martin in neighboring Moorestown, NJ. Their dedication to supporting the field of radar and local radar community is exemplary. Thank you one and all. 2 WELCOME FROM THE TECHNICAL PROGRAM CHAIR David J. Farina Technical Program Chair, 2016 IEEE Radar Conference On behalf of the technical program committee members, I would like to express my welcome to Philadelphia and our 2016 IEEE Radar Conference. We hope you enjoy all aspects of it. We appreciate the energy that the international radar community has shown for this conference. We had over 500 papers submitted, and 115 technical program reviewers. We accepted 181 oral papers and 100 poster papers. This all led to a high-quality program that we feel you will truly appreciate. The very dedicated volunteer reviewers were chosen for their breadth and expertise in Radar and it allowed us to give each paper a careful consideration with multiple reviews. I want to thank those that suggested special sessions; the conference has 12 special sessions and a total of 38 parallel sessions that cover a wide variety of systems, processing, hardware and algorithms. I also want to thank the session co-chairs for accepting that role and giving our conference a personal feel. The students represent our future. This year 20 student papers are being presented in the oral format. All 93 accepted student papers were also part of a student contest, led by James Onorato, open to all papers whose primary author is an active full-time student. The contest is to encourage graduate students to pursue radar and related technologies. The top 3 winners will be recognized at the conference and receive a cash award. In addition, the top 10 receive a radar textbook. We also gratefully acknowledge the generous financial support of the U.S. National Science Foundation, which sponsored our student travel grants. We want to especially thank the paper authors for their contributions to this conference and the advancement of radar. Your papers are the cornerstone of the conference. Again, Welcome to Philadelphia and enjoy meeting the other thought leaders in radar. 3 WELCOME FROM THE AESS RSP CHAIR Maria Sabrina Greco AESS RSP Chair Dear members of the Radar Systems Panel, AESS members, dear attendees, It’s my pleasure to welcome you to the 2016 AESS Radar Conference, this year held again in the beautiful Philly, after many years. As all the conference volunteers know, organizing a big conference is never an easy job and even though sometimes everything seems to go wrong, fortunately it never happens, thanks to the dedication, the patience and the work of the organizers. At the end, magically, every piece of the puzzle goes to the right place in the big picture. So, here we are, with an excellent technical program, 23 tutorials on Monday and Friday, 38 oral and poster sessions and a very interesting guest tour program. I wish you to enjoy the conference and, if you have some spare time, the Spring in Philadelphia. All the best. 4 5 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chair Deputy General Chair Dr. Joseph G. Teti, Jr., Lambda Science, Inc. Mr. Allan Croly, Lockheed Martin MST Technical Program Chair Senior Conference Advisor Dr. David J. Farina, Lockheed Martin MST Dr. John K. Smith, Consultant Local Arrangements Chair Exhibits & Corporate Support Chair Mr. Thomas L. Fagan, TLF Associates Mr. Joseph J. Schanne, Lambda Science, Inc. 6 Publications Chair Student Poster Competition Chair Dr. Fauzia Ahmad, Villanova University Mr. James Onorato, Telephonics Corporation Tutorials Chair Registration Chair Dr. Marshall Greenspan, Consultant Mr. Michael A. Mayor, Consultant Electronic Services Co-Chair Electronic Services Co-Chair Mr. Patrick Cahill, Lambda Science, Inc. Mr. Justin M. Buckley, Lambda Science, Inc. 7 Finance Chair IEEE Philadelphia Section Liaison Mr. Robert L. Johnston, Lockheed Martin SSC Mr. I. Marvin Weilerstein, Consultant Publicity Chair Conference Coordinator Mr. Peter M. Silverberg, Consultant Ms. Linda L. Marciano, Lockheed Martin 8 TECHNICAL REVIEW COMMITTEE MEMBERS The Technical Program Chair wishes to thank all of the reviewers for their support. Raviraj Adve Scott Goldstein S. Unnikrishna Pillai Fauzia Ahmad Maria Greco Leigh Powis Oliver Allen Hugh Griffiths Daniel Rabideau Moeness Amin Joseph Guerci Muralidhar Rangaswamy Richard Anderson Ali Cafer Gurbuz Brian Rigling Stuart Anderson Sevgi Gurbuz Frank Robey Greg Arlow Alexander Haimovich Hermann Rohling Augusto Aubry Aboulnasr Hassanien Paul Rosen Richard Bamler Randy Haupt Joseph Schanne Yaakov Bar-Shalom Brett Haywood Dan Scholnik Kristine Bell Scott Hensley Daniel Sego Mark Bell Jeffrey Herd Don Sinnott Jamie Bergin Braham Himed Mark Sletten Fabrizio Berizzi Bruce Hudson John Smith Patrick Bidigare Michael Inggs Daniele Staglianò David Blacknell Paul Kalata Chris Teixeira Daniel Bliss Joshua Kantor Joseph Teti Ingar Blosfelds Krzysztof Kulpa Daniel Thomas Rick Blum Heiner Kuschel Gerard Titi Shannon Blunt Alex Lackpour Russell Vela Kevin Buckley Marc Lesturgie Keith Ward Patrick Cahill Nadav Levanon Simon Watts Gerard Capraro Hongbin Li Matthias Weiß Vincenzo Carotenuto Michael Luddy Michael Wicks Elaine Chapin Anthony Martone Peter Willet Victor Chen Marco Martorella Xiaopeng Yang Margaret Cheney Michael Mayor Yeo-Sun Yoon Mikhail Cherniakov Robert McMillan David Zasada Bill Correll William Melvin Yimin Zhang Scott Coutts John Milan Guolong Cui Eric Mokole Mark Davis Alberto Moreira James Day Ram Narayanan Antonio De Maio Arye Nehorai Armin Doerry Xavier Neyt Alfonso Farina Les Novak David Farina Dave Ott Gordon Frazer Luca Pallotta Fulvio Gini Jenny Palmer 9 SESSION CHAIRS The Technical Program Chair wishes to thank all of the Session Chairs for their support. Yuri Abramovich, WR Systems Joshua Kantor,