Projects

Electromagnetics

• Terahertz Scattering for Detection of Improvised Explosive Devices
• Electromagnetic Scattering and Propagation for Terahertz Medical Spectroscopy
• Synthetic Aperture Terahertz Imaging

Acoustics

• Multi-static Active Target Tracking using an Invariance Constraint
• Mid-Frequency Bottom Scattering Model: Development and Validation
• Ambient Noise Processing
• Deep Ocean Detection Performance
• Geoacoustic Inversion
• Studies on the Effects of Sound on the Marine Environment

Multi-Modality Sensing

• The Columbia River (CR) Basin Sustainable Water Resources, Energy and Climate Initiative
• Conservation Technology Initiative (joint with The Nature Conservancy)
• Maritime Signature Analysis (funded by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

Completed Projects

• Trihedral Scattering Over Rough Dielectric Surfaces
• Electromagnetic Modeling For Advanced Radar Processing
• Signal Processing Methods for Detection of Subsurface Objects by Ultra-wideband SAR
• Shallow Water Array Processing (SWAP)

The above are a sample of projects the NEAR-Lab is actively researching. Clicking the title will open a document in .pdf format. Windows users can use the Adobe Reader or GhostScript while linux users can use xpdf (which should already be on your machine) as well as the Acrobat Reader. Questions regarding these projects may be sent to nearlab@cecs.pdx.edu.