This manuscript is now fit for porpoise
The newly published special issue paper on the ‘Radar signatures of sea lions at K-band and W-band’ from authors Samiur Rahman, Aleks Vattulainen, Duncan Robertson, and Ryan Milne garnered the above amusing comment from the Editor-in-Chief of IET Radar, Sonar & Navigation. The publication is an extension of work presented by Samiur at the IET International Conference on Radar Systems in Edinburgh last year.
Research team during trials (left to right), Duncan Robertson, Aleks Vattulainen, Samiur Rahman, Ryan Milne. Also featuring 24 GHz Blunderbuss and 77 GHz Faros-E radar systems.
The work was conducted as part of the EPSRC-funded STREAM project, where the data gathered of the radar signatures of sea mammals will be used to help potential sensors on future autonomous boats detect and avoid collisions with animals. The research also hopes to explore the use of radar for population monitoring. The field trial took place at the Sea Mammal Research Unit in St Andrews, the photos below showing the animals in the pool, alongside processed radar data captured during a sea lion jumping out of the water.
(Left) The three sea lions who featured in the trials at the Sea Mammal Research Unit in St Andrews. (Right) Photo and Range-time intensity plot of a sea lion jump.
You can find the latest paper in IET RSN here, as well as the 2022 paper from IET International Conference on Radar Systems