Research
Projects
Currently running
- Radar polarimetry using non-symmetrical MIMO arrays
- EFRO - Airside 4D weather and air motion mapping using fast-scanning phase-array Doppler FMCW radar. Funded as a part of the Airport Technology Lab research activities.
- The analysis of polarimetric micro-Doppler features for drones classification .
- Algorithms for multichannel polarimetric detection, tracking and classification of multiple moving cars on highway using real PARSAX Doppler data.
Past
- Radar Signal Processing on Flexible/Reconfigurable Computer Architectures. Funded by the King Abdulaziz city for Science and Technology (KACST) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. 2015-2020.
- Acquisition and transfer of Drones/PARSAX recordings. - Thales-France (TR6) funded project. 2018-2019.
- S4DRIVE:Standardized Self-diagnostic Sensing Systems for Highly Automated Driving. NWO/TTW funded project. 2015-2019.
- Analysis and modeling of radar signals backscattered by wind turbines. CIFRE (France) funded project. 2017-2019.
- WAMTI: Wideband Algorithms for Migrating Targets Indication: Study using the PARSAX Radar. STW funded project. 2012-2018.
- Acquisition and transfer of Windfarm/PARSAX recordings. - Thales-France (TR6) funded project. 2014.
- UFO: UltraFast wind sensOrs for wake-vortex hazards mitigation. - EU FP7 project. 2012-2016.
- SHINE: Sensing Heterogeneous Information Network Environment. - DIRECT funded project. 2012-2016.
- RAEBELL: Distributed radar for low-level airspace surveillance. - 2012-2016.
- STARS: Sensor Technology Applied in Reconfigurable systems sustainable Security.- FES project, 2011-2016.
- PARSAX: Polarimetric Agile Radar in S- And X-band. - STW funded, 2006-2011
- Synergy of anchor stations and satellites for the validation of space-borne cloud radars: application to water clouds - SRON funded, GO-2005/014, 2008-2011
- CLOUDNET: A network of stations for the continuous evaluation of cloud and aerosol profiles in operational NWP models. EU FP5 project. 2001-2005.
- Radar-lidar synergy for space-based retrievals of water cloud parameters. - SRON funded, EO-060, 2003-2006.
- Retrieval algorithms of micro-physical cloud parameters for the Earth Radiation Mission. - SRON funded, EO-035, 1999-2003.
PhD Students
Current PhD projects (co-promotor)
- Tworit Dash. High-Accuracy Model-Based Wind Estimation using a Radar with Ultra-Fast Scanning Expected defense: 2024.
As co-promotor
- Sharef Neemat. Reconfigurable Range-Doppler Processing and Interference Mitigation for FMCW Radars. PhD thesis. Delft: Delft University of Technology, 01.04.2020.
- Albert Oude Nijhuis. Radar remote sensing of wind vectors and turbulence intensity from rain drop backscattering. PhD thesis. Delft: Delft University of Technology, 16.01.2019.
- Inna Ivashko. Radar networks performance analysis and topology optimization. PhD thesis. Delft: Delft University of Technology, 2016.
- Teun de Groot. Mission-Driven Resource Management for Reconfigurable Sensing Systems. PhD thesis. Delft: Delft University of Technology, 2015.
As a daily supervisor/consultant
- Christine L. Knist. Retrieval of liquid water cloud properties from ground-based remote sensing observations. PhD thesis. Delft: Delft University of Technology, 2014.
- Alberto Lupidi. Polarimetric Radar Signal Processing Techniques based on Decomposition Theorems for Detection and Classification of Natural and Man-made Targets. PhD thesis. Pisa: Universita di Pisa, 2013.
- Zhijian Li. Design, Simulation and Validation of Dual-channel Polarimetric Agile Radar Technology. PhD thesis. Delft: Delft University of Technology, 2011.
- Francois Deudon, Traitements radar large bande : apport de la migration distance pour l'obtention d'un mode non-ambigu. PhD thesis. Toulouse: Universite de Toulouse, 2011.
- Galina Babur. Processing of Dual-Orthogonal CW Polarimetric Radar Signals. PhD thesis. Delft: Delft University of Technology, 2009.
- Jordi Figueras i Ventura. Design of a High Resolution X-band Doppler Polarimetric Weather Radar. PhD thesis. Delft: Delft University of Technology, 2009.
PhD Internship
- Xuan Wang, 2015-2017.
- Alberto Lupidi, 2013.04-09
- He Mi, 2010