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Online Seminar | An exploration of Passive Radar

16 September 2020, 11:30 am–12:30 pm

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Professor Hugh Griffiths is the first speaker of our second season of ICCS online seminars, in this seminar, he will introduce us to the developments and implementation of passive radar

This event is free.

Event Information

Open to

All | UCL staff | UCL students

Availability

Yes

Cost

Free

Organiser

Robert Thompson – Institute of Communications and Connected Systems

An exploration of Passive Radar

Passive radar may be defined as radar that makes use of existing transmissions – such as broadcast, communications or radio-navigation signals – rather than a dedicated radar transmitter.

Such systems have a number of advantages, including covertness, low cost, and no need for additional spectrum. The earliest experiments go back several decades, but for many years the concept was not much more than an interesting research topic.

That situation has changed significantly in the past five years or so. There has been a step change in the maturity of the technology, and several commercial companies have built and demonstrated systems with high performance.

This is due to a number of factors, including ever-greater spectrum congestion, and the widespread use of digital transmissions.

A defence business website estimates that the civil and defence market for passive radar will exceed US$10bn over the next decade.

The presentation will cover some of the key developments, examples of practical systems and results, and some speculation on the future of the subject.

ICCS Chair

This session will be chaired by: Izzat Darwazeh


Attending the seminar 

The Seminar will be held on the Zoom platform. Details of how to access Zoom can be found on their website.

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About the ICCS online seminar series

The ICCS seminar series is designed to bring together members of our community who are currently away from our home in Bloomsbury and distributed across the world. The Seminars are being curated to provide academic exploration and inspiration, offering insights into a range of topics surrounding communications and connected systems. Topics will either explore subjects close to the work of our academics or introduce wider concepts from experts in the global academic and industrial community.

If you wish to suggest a future topic or speaker please use the link below, speakers could be from academia, industry, within ICCS/UCL or from further a field.

Format 

The seminar will begin with a presentation aimed at a technical audience, but at a level that will be accessible to those from a range of engineering disciplines. Speakers have been asked to end their presentations with a technical challenge or delving deeper into the content to engage those more invested in the topic. 

The seminar series is designed to offer a compact exploration of ranging topics and is therefore short in format. The presentation will run for 15 - 30 minutes, followed by 15 minutes of questions.
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About the Speaker

Hugh Griffiths

Professor of Radio Frequency Sensor Systems at UCL

Hugh Griffiths holds the THALES/Royal Academy of Engineering Chair of RF Sensors at University College London, UK. He served as AES President for 2012/13. He received the IET A F Harvey Prize in 2013 and IEEE Picard Medal in 2017. With Chris Baker, he is author of the book An Introduction to Passive Radar, published by Artech House in 2017

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