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Signal chain architectures for efficient airport surface movement radar video processing

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Surface movement radar (SMR) is emerging as critical air traffic control to prevent runway incursion. In order to reach, or exceed, the demanding requirements for the International Civil Aviation Organization, this paper aims to develop an SMR signal chain architecture which extracts information about radar objects of interest in airport surveillance video. This research results can be integrated into radar analyzer and compressor data processor to enable the system to quickly detect objects of moving or stationary. It can work normally in the case of pulses are lost in burst transmission or the resources. The state-of-the-art performance of this signal chain architecture is verified by simulations with X-band radar trials data are collected at Kunming Changshui International Airport of China, which ensure the reliability of research. The work presented here is practical and straightforward; it brings an evident engineering application prospect.

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Special thanks also go to the 2-nd Research Institute, Civil Aviation Administration of China. Furthermore, this work was support by the Science and Technology Bureau of Sichuan Province, Grant No: 2020YFG0414.

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  1. The 2-Nd Research Institute, Civil Aviation Administration of China, Chengdu, 610041, China

    ChaoYu Xia, Chang-Bo Hou, Chun-Bo Guo, Zhao Zhang & Chun-Rong Yang

  2. Chengdu Civil Aviation Air Traffic Control Science and Technology Co., LTD, Chengdu, 610041, China

    ChaoYu Xia, Chang-Bo Hou, Chun-Bo Guo, Zhao Zhang & Chun-Rong Yang

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Xia, C., Hou, CB., Guo, CB. et al. Signal chain architectures for efficient airport surface movement radar video processing. SIViP 15, 1537–1545 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11760-021-01886-6

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