Tracking of Noncooperative Airborne Targets Using ADS-B Signal and Radar Sensing

Abstract EN

As the Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) system has gained wide acceptance, additional exploitations of the radioed satellite-based information are topics of current interest.

One such opportunity includes the augmentation of the communication ADS-B signal with a random biphase modulation for concurrent use as a radar signal.

This paper addresses the formulation and analysis of a suitable noncooperative multitarget tracking method for the ADS-B radar system using radar ranging techniques and particle filter algorithms.

In addition, the low-update-rate measurement due to the ADS-B system specification is discussed in order to provide acceptable estimation results.

Simulation results show satisfactory tracking capability up to several kilometers with acceptable accuracy.