Intended Audience: Post graduate / PhD students and system engineers in industry, scientific staff in research labs. Basic knowledge in mathematics and statistics is necessary.

Description: Advanced distributed signal and data fusion for passive radar systems, where DVB TV or GSM mobile phone base stations are used as sources for illuminating targets, for example, is a topic of increasing interest. Even in remote regions of the world, transmitters of electromagnetic radiation become a potential radar transmitter stations enabling covert surveillance for air, sea, and ground scenarios. Analogous considerations are valid for sub-sea surveillance. Illustrated by examples and experimental results, principles of passive radar as well as advanced multistatic tracking and de-ghosting techniques will be discussed.

Presenter: Wolfgang Koch

18.10.1962 born in Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany, study of physics and mathematics at Aachen Technical University (RWTH), Germany
Since 1990 Research Scientist at Fraunhofer Defence and Security.
Since 2002 Lecturer for Sensor Data Fusion at Bonn University.
Since 2002 Head of Dept. Sensor Data and Information Fusion
Since 2003 Editing services for IEEE T-AES
2005 Initiation of a series of annual IEEE ISIF workshops SDF:
Since 2007 Member of the Board of Directors of ISIF
2008 Executive Chair of the 11th International Conference on Information Fusion, June 30 – July 3, 2008, Cologne, Germany (together with Peter Willett)
2010 Habilitation at University of Bonn University, Germany
2011 Fellow, IEEE
2013 President of the ISIF
Since 2015 IEEE Distinguished Lecturer