Progress in Radar Research Workshop 2026
Description
About PIRR 2026
The PIRR series of workshops is designed to engage the community and provide a venue for researchers to present their work in radar and allied fields. It complements the International Radar Conferences that run in the “3” and “8” years. Past workshops have attracted over 100 registrants. PIRR 2026 will follow a similar format to that of previous PIRR workshops, with 2 days of presentations and discussion.
The use of the term Progress in the workshop title indicates that the series invites a stocktake on current, not necessarily completed, research and is not only a forum for reports of completed work. It also provides an opportunity for peer exposure and tuning of formal papers intended for subsequent presentation at a conference or for journal publication. The event will be held on the North Terrace campus of the University of Adelaide.
Topics of interest
PIRR 2026 topics include research into any area of radar, tracking or related areas of science or technology. Consistent with the intent of the workshop series, PIRR 2026 welcomes proposals for presentations in areas outside radar which bear on issues faced by radar researchers.
Workshop arrangements and registration
Workshop sessions will run in a conference format, from 9:00 to 17:00 on each day, with ample time for informal interaction. Light refreshments will be available during the day. A dinner will be held at the end of the first day.
Although no registration fee is charged, registration is required.
If you have any queries about this event, please email PIRR2026@adelaide.edu.au.
Technical Committee
Dr Bobby Yau, DSTG
Dr Van Nguyen, DSTG
Dr Luke Rosenberg, Advanced Systems & Technologies, LMA
A/Prof Brian Ng, Adelaide University
Prof Natasha Jackson-Booth, Adelaide University
Sponsors
Progress in Radar Research Workshop 2026 is proud to be sponsored by:
Agenda
- 8:00 am - 9:00 am
Registrations and Networking Coffee
- 9:00 am - 9:10 am
Workshop Welcome
Associate Professor Brian Ng and Dr Luke Rosenberg
- 9:10 am - 9:50 am
Plenary Session 1: Radar History
Dr Lorenzo Lo Monte
- 9:50 am - 11:10 am
Session 1: Space Sensing, Chair: Nick Stacy
9:50: VHF radar observations of the Varda W2 and W3 Capsule Re-entries: David A. Holdsworth, Brendan Hennessy 10:10: Passive Radar from the Stratosphere: Altitude, Geometry and Signal Characterisation: Kamrul Hassan, Robert Young 10:20: Explorations in Reflective Tomography for Asteroid & Space Debris Characterisation: Nick Stacy, Guifre Molera Calves, Liam Filby, Oliver White, Shinji Horiuchi, Ed Kruzins, 10:30: Non-myopic, information driven sensor tasking for distributed catalogue maintenance in space domain awareness: Jason L. Williams, I. Vaughan L. Clarkson, Ashwani Kumar, Kruger White
- 11:10 am - 11:40 am
Morning Tea
- 11:40 am - 1:00 pm
Session 2: Radar Signal Processing, Chair: Luke Rosenberg
11:40: Joint Detection and Tracking for Maritime Radar with Transformers: Caden Sweeney, Du Yong Kim, Branko Ristic, Brian Cheung 12:00: Range-Dependent Matched Filtering of Eclipsed FMICW Radar Signals: David Johnson, Rex Crisp 12:20: Projection onto convex sets (POCS) algorithm for beamforming of antenna arrays: Morteza Shahpari, Thomas Winchester, Mayank Kaushik, Bobby Yau 12:40: Constant False Alarm Rate Reduced Rank Detection
- 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Lunch Break
- 2:00 pm - 3:20 pm
Session 3: Radar Systems 1, Chair: Jason Williams
2:00: Advantages of Spatially Varying Waveforms: Luke Rosenberg 2:20: Practical OAM imaging using a uniform circular array: Shalanika Dayarathna, Luke Rosenberg, Minh Pham 2:40: Modal Decomposition of Quasi OAM Apertures: Sam Williamson, Amir Ebrahimi, James Scott, Kamran Ghorbani, Luke Rosenberg, Minh Pham 3;00: Non-Invasive Detection of Subsurface Objects using Unmanned Aerial Vehicle based Sensing Platforms: C. Wing, K. Bialkowski, T. Bore, A. Scheuermann, A. McCallum, C. Finco, and F. Rejiba
- 3:20 pm - 3:50 pm
Afternoon Tea
- 3:50 pm - 5:10 pm
Session 4: HF Radar, Chair: Van Nguyen
3:50 Range-walk mitigation with HF Radar: Brendan Hennessy, Heath Yardley, Stephen Howard 4:10: Spectral Theory for Planar Antenna Arrays: Stephen Howard 4:30: Impact of auroral region clutter on the F2-region leading edge extraction in synthetic backscatter soundings: Liam Warden, Emma Bland, Tristan Camilleri, Manuel Cervera 4:50: Monitoring the health of aquatic ecosystems: A new mission for HF radar: Stuart Anderson
- 5:45 pm - 7:45 pm
Evening Function @ The Zoo
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