Connecting the dots – Radar in an interconnected world!
Prof. Daniel W. O’Hagan, Passive Radar and Anti-Jamming Techniques Department, Fraunhofer FHR, Wachtberg (Germany)
Prof. Daniel W. O’Hagan is Head of the Passive Radar and Anti-Jamming Techniques Department, Fraunhofer FHR, Wachtberg, Germany. His department consists of four groups focused on Passive and Networked Radar, Electronic Defence, Advanced Concepts and System Development. He is former convener of the internationally renowned University of Cape Town (UCT) Radar Masters Course.
Daniel is Chair and DEU National Representative of NATO SET-268 “Bi-/Multi-static radar performance evaluation under synchronised conditions”, Chair and DEU National Representative of NATO SET-296 on “Radar against Hypersonic Threats” and former Chair of SET-207, and SET-164. He is the recipient of the NATO SET Early Career Award in 2019.
Daniel is Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE AESS Magazine and Associate Editor for radar with the same publication. Daniel holds a PhD in radar and has lectured at some of the leading R&D establishments throughout the world.
Keynote abstract:
A modern technology trend in the domain of sensing is towards interconnectivity. Multiple sensor nodes will have to communicate with each other – sometimes centrally coordinated, but increasingly on a decentralised basis. The sensor nodes themselves will not be uniform. Rather a sensor mosaic could comprise radars of different frequency and type, optical sensors and acoustic sensors.
This keynote presentation will consider this trend more generally and then provide some examples of backbone infrastructure that is required to achieve a cohesive sensor (particularly radar) network. This presentation will focus strongly on Multi Platform RF Systems (MPRFS) and how every sensor-node in a given constellation achieves a common understanding of time.