W-band multi-radar processing for airport foreign object debris and humans detection

The need to improve efficiency, safety and security of airports becomes every day much more demanding. Today, different Radar-based systems are available for these purposes: for Advanced Surface Movement Guidance Control System, for Foreign Object Debris detection, for Bird Strike prevention and for intrusion detection. Millimeter-wave radars have, mainly, the capability to provide all these functions thanks to their high resolution, high renewal rate and high sensitivity to small objects. In this paper the performances of an airport W-band Radar Network are evaluated (with real and simulated data) in presence of small objects and/or humans. In particular, a radar raw level data-fusion is proposed and evaluated to improve the system detection capability in case of Foreign Object and Human.