Plenary Keynote and Invited Speaker Presentations:

Plenary Keynote: Dual Function Systems: Radar as Signal of Opportunity for Wireless Communications

Moeness Amin, Villanova University.

Plenary Keynote: Information Generator: Keeping the Lights on

Paul Kealey, Ministry of Defence

Invited Speaker:  Passive Radar – from Inception to Maturity

Hugh Griffiths, University College London.

Invited Speaker: Distributed Sensor Networks - Current Projects and Research Perspectives

Wolfgang Koch, Fraunhofer FKIE.

Paper Presentations

1.1         Novel Approach for Ballistic Targets Classification from HRRP frame

Adriano Rosario Persico¹, Christos V. Ilioudis¹, Carmine Clemente¹, John J Soraghan¹, ¹University of Strathclyde.

1.2         A Cognitive Stepped Frequency Strategy for HRRP Estimation

Luca Pallotta¹, Vincenzo Carotenuto², Augusto Aubry², Antonio De Maio²,  Salvatore Iommelli³, ¹CNIT c/o udr University of “Naples Federico II”, ²University of Naples “Federico II”, ³Ente di Formazione Professionale Maxwell.

1.3         Optimality Criteria for Adaptive Waveform Design in MIMO Radar Systems

Steven Herbert¹, James R Hopgood¹, Bernard Mulgrew¹, ¹University of Edinburgh.

1.4         Time-Frequency Analysis of Millimeter-Wave Radar Micro-Doppler Data from Small UAVs

Samiur Rahman¹, Duncan Robertson¹, ¹University of St Andrews.

4.1         Maximum Discrimination Approach for Classification of Nearly Identical Signatures

Darren Emge¹, Steven Kay², US Army, ¹Edgewood Chemical Biological Center, ²University of Rhode Island.

4.2         Correlation Based Classification of Complex PRI Modulation Types

Fotios Katsilieris¹, Sabine Apfeld², Alexander Charlish², ¹Airbus Defence and Space, ²Fraunhofer FKIE.

5.1         Co-prime Arrays with Reduced Sensors (CARS) for Direction-of-Arrival Estimation

Mingyang Chen¹, Lu Gan², Wenwu Wang¹, ¹University of Surrey, ²Brunel University.

5.2         Identification of Broadband Source-Array Responses from Sensor Second Order Statistics

Stephan Weiss¹, Nick Goddard², Samuel D. Somasundaram³, Ian Proudler⁴, Patrick A Naylor⁵, ¹University of Strathclyde, ²Dstl, ³Thales UK, ⁴Loughborough University, ⁵Imperial College London.

6.1         Location Based Distributed Spectral Clustering for Wireless Sensor Networks

Gowtham Muniraju¹, Sai Zhang¹, Cihan Tepedelenlioglu¹, Mahesh Banavar², Andreas Spanias¹, Cesar Vargas-Rosales³, Rafaela Villalpando³, ¹Arizona State University, ²Clarkson University, ³Tecnologico de Monterrey.

6.2         Node Sampling by Partitioning on Graphs via Convex Optimization

Cristian Rusu¹, John Thompson¹, ¹University of Edinburgh.

6.3         Spectrum Alerting System Based on Software Defined Radio and Raspberry Pi

David C Ball¹, Nitin Naik¹, Paul Jenkins¹, ¹Ministry of Defence.

6.4         Non-Cooperative Target Localisation Using Rank Based EDM Approach

Hebatallah Shoukry¹, Mathini Sellathurai¹, Pat Chambers¹, John Thompson², Satyanarayana Vuppala³, ¹Heriot-Watt University, ²University of Edinburgh, ³University of Luxemburg.