NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANISATION

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION SPECIALISTS’ MEETING

SET- 228

on Radar Imaging for Target Identification

organized by the Sensors and Electronics Technology Panel

to be held in

Pisa, (ITA) on 19-20 October 2015

This Specialists’ Meeting is NATO UNCLASSIFIED open to Australia and South Africa

Latest Enrolment Date

NATO Nations 09 Oct 2015

NON-NATO Nations

11 Sept 2015

Enrol on-line at http://www.sto.nato.int All presentations and discussions will be held in English.

No conference fee for presenters and participants

INTRODUCTION

General Information A Specialists’ Meeting aims at promoting exchange of state-of-the-art knowledge among an audience of specialists on an important scientific topic to enhance the capability of the NATO S&T community to respond adequately to the NATO requirements. Attendance at STO specialist meetings is by invitation only from STO National Delegates and from SET Panel Members and will be restricted to citizens from NATO-Member Nations, unless otherwise stated. The authors will be invited by the Programme Committee that will select papers, based on submitted abstracts that are considered suitable for presentation at the Meeting. The papers and presentations will be delivered only in English. All selected papers will have to be submitted in their final form. The audience will include experts from NATO countries and the participation will be validated by the respective National Coordinators. S&T Organization in NATO Science & Technology (S&T) in the NATO context is defined as the selective and rigorous generation and application of state-of-the-art, validated knowledge for defence and security purposes. S&T activities embrace scientific research, technology development, transition, application and field-testing, experimentation and a range of related scientific activities that include systems engineering, operational research and analysis, synthesis, integration and validation of knowledge derived through the scientific method. The mission of the NATO STO is to help position the Nations’ and NATO’s S&T investments as a strategic enabler of the knowledge and technology advantage for the defence and security posture of NATO Nations and partner Nations, by: o Conducting and promoting S&T activities that augment

and leverage the capabilities and programmes of the Alliance, of the NATO Nations and the partner Nations, in support of NATO’s objectives;

o Contributing to NATO’s ability to enable and influence security- and defence-related capability development and threat mitigation in NATO Nations and partner Nations, in accordance with NATO policies;

o Supporting decision-making in the NATO Nations and NATO.

The Sensors & Electronics Technology Panel The Sensors and Electronics Technology (SET) Panel is one of the seven Panels under the STB.

The mission of the SET Panel is to foster co-operative research, the exchange of information and the advancement of science and technology among the NATO Nations in the field of sensors and electronics for defence and security. The SET Panel addresses electronic technologies as well as passive and active sensors as they pertain to Reconnaissance, Surveillance and Target Acquisition (RSTA), Electronic Warfare (EW), communications and navigation, and the enhancement of sensor capabilities through multi-sensor integration and fusion. SET-228 INFORMATION Background So often non-cooperative target radar imaging techniques are developed driven by the necessity of improving the image quality or to extend its applicability to various scenarios or to solve or improve the solution of some intrinsic problem, such as cross-range scaling, motion compensation, projection plane estimation, etc. Therefore, the ISAR imaging problem is often not seen through the eyes of a non-cooperative target classifiers, which increasingly play the part of the ultimate users of ISAR images. Conversely, target recognition experts often do not consider the possibility to make use of ISAR images, even when a very small amount of them could improve the classifier performances. Objectives This specialist meeting aims at bringing together experts of radar imaging and Non-Cooperative/Automatic Target Recognition (ATR/NCTR), and possibly triggering discussions and collaboration, which may improve the overall aspects of NCTR by means of radar images.

SET- 228 Chair

Prof. Marco Martorella (ITA) University of Pisa m.martorella@iet.unipi.it

SET- 228 Co-Chairs Dr. Luc Vignaud (FRA) ONERA Luc.Vignaud@onera.fr

Dr. Philippe Brouard (FRA) ONERA Philippe.Brouard@onera.fr

SET- 228 Local Host Coordinator

Mr. Daniele Stagliano’ Daniele.stagliano@for.unipi.it

Keynote speakers Prof. Hugh Griffith, UCL (UK) Prof. David Blacknell, DSTL (UK)

NATO Collaboration Support Office (CSO) – SET Panel Maj. Mauro Roddi (ITA A) SET PANEL EXECUTIVE mauro.roddi@cso.nato.int Ms, Ewelina Glinska-Lewis SET PANEL ASSISTANT ewelina.glinska-lewis@cso.nato.int

Topics to be covered: The intention of this Specialist Meeting will be to present all relevant aspects of Radar imaging and ATR/NCTR. A non-exhaustive list of relevant topics follows:

• ISAR image formation including bistatic, multistatic and polarimetric

• ISAR image feature extraction • ISAR image quality measurement • NCTR / ATR schemes and algorithms • NCTR / ATR theory and performance

estimation • Simulations & Model based recognition • Automatic HRR / SAR / ISAR mode

selection • Employment context : target, system • Database

Deadlines:

• US Abstract submission : 19 June, 2015 • Abstracts submission: 10 July, 2015 • Acceptance notification: 24 July, 2015 • US Paper submission: 31 Aug, 2105 • Final paper submission: 18 Sept, 2015

Submissions: Abstract and final papers should be submitted to: m.martorella@iet.unipi.it

ENROLMENT INFORMATION (Participants & Authors)

APPLICATION TO ENROL

SPECIALISTS’MEETING SET-228

19-20 October, Pisa, (ITA)

Open to NATO Nations, Australia and South Africa

Enrolment must be made via internet only at http://www.sto.nato.int

Note: if you enrolled for other RTO-STO activities in the past, please use the same e-mail address as previously. If your e-mail address has changed, please inform the STO-CSO contact before enrolling.

Once your enrolment has been validated, you will receive a General Information Package with the latest information on travel, accommodation and local arrangements. Please note that participants are to make their own travel arrangements and hotel bookings. If you are unable to enrol via the internet, please contact the SET PANEL Assistant : ewelina.glinska-lewis@cso.nato.int

Please respect the following dates for enrolment:

Latest Enrolment Dates: 09 Oct 2015

OPENING OF THE Enrolment: 03 Aug 2015