It's often a bigger challenge to differentiate drones with bigger birds from radar data. Amidst the presence of some techniques using video detection, radio signal detection, heat signature detection and the radar based approach, the effectivity of the technique is not very well placed. Would you please help me with some directions, as I am interested to work on this topic.
Dear Dipayan,
Long wave infrared images are very useful in differentiating live creature from artificial UAV. See the following topic for more details
http://cdn.intechopen.com/pdfs/21955/InTech-Visual_and_thermal_image_fusion_for_uav_based_target_tracking.pdf
Thanks a lot for your input. There is one question which is striking me here. Would thermal imaging really be effective for smaller UAVs? As most of them have very small motors and that too covered in plastic/some heat sink type substance. Would the heat signature be the effective feature? My understanding here may be wrong. Please let me know.
Depending on the desired detection range, and available range and azimuth resolution, micro-Doppler signature might also help in differentiating UAVs from birds.
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