Stephen Pendergast

Stephen Pendergast

San Diego, California, United States
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Specialties:
o Advanced Satellite Communications, Iridium SBD
o Naval Combat…

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Experience

  • Self-employed

    Greater San Diego Area

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    Greater San Diego Area

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Education

Publications

  • Recent Advances in Radar Technology

    Microwave Journal

    We discussed recent advances in radars from UHF up to millimeter wave and from industrial process monitoring to exploring the solar system. The major trend in high performance radar is the AESA and multiple imaging modes. While many areas of radar technology have matured in the last half century, reflected in reduced SWAP and cost, new technology and algorithms continue to enable new performance levels in existing applications and the emergence of new applications.

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  • Multisensor fusion for airport surface movement area surveillance and safety

    Proc. SPIE 4731, Sensor Fusion: Architectures, Algorithms, and Applications VI, (6 March 2002); doi: 10.1117/12.458388

    In this paper we describe the nature of the problem of surveillance of airport surface movement. We describe the characteristics, performance, and unique problems of various airport
    sensors available, and the need to develop a fusion system to provide an integrated surveillance picture. Parallel sensor fusion developments are described in terms of their applicability
    to the sensor fusion task in surface surveillance. Paradigms for sensor fusion, including alternative architectures…

    In this paper we describe the nature of the problem of surveillance of airport surface movement. We describe the characteristics, performance, and unique problems of various airport
    sensors available, and the need to develop a fusion system to provide an integrated surveillance picture. Parallel sensor fusion developments are described in terms of their applicability
    to the sensor fusion task in surface surveillance. Paradigms for sensor fusion, including alternative architectures, algorithms, and performance metrics will be described. Finally we
    describe system implementation and quantitative performance of sensor fusion applied to the surface surveillance problem at demonstrations in Atlanta Hartsfield International Airport
    (1998, ATL), Dallas Fort Worth International Airport (1999, 2000, DFW), and in-process and planned future developments in sensor fusion.

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  • Runway incursion prevention system concept verification: ground systems and STIS-B link analysis

    Digital Avionics Systems, 2001. DASC. 20th Conference (Volume:1 )

    Recent programs such as NASA's Runway Incursion Prevention System (RIPS) have placed newly
    developed airport surveillance systems and technology at Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) International
    airport for testing in an attempt to develop systems that will reduce the risk of runway incursions. The primary objective of the RIPS test conducted in October 2000 at DFW was to assess and validate the performance of communication, navigation and surveillance (CNS) infrastructure technologies and…

    Recent programs such as NASA's Runway Incursion Prevention System (RIPS) have placed newly
    developed airport surveillance systems and technology at Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) International
    airport for testing in an attempt to develop systems that will reduce the risk of runway incursions. The primary objective of the RIPS test conducted in October 2000 at DFW was to assess and validate the performance of communication, navigation and surveillance (CNS) infrastructure technologies and incursion alerting systems for preventing runway incursion. The test included analysis of both ground systems and the Surface Traffic Information Systems-Broadcast (STIS-B) data link

    Other authors
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  • Runway incursion reduction program (RIRP) surveillance system, NASA/FAA Atlanta demonstration

    Digital Avionics Systems Conference, 1998. Proceedings., 17th DASC. The AIAA/IEEE/SAE

    Discusses a prototype Airport Movement Area Safety System (AMASS) originally designed to
    receive ASDE-3 and ARTS-IIIA data. These two data sources were applied to safety logic to provide
    air traffic controllers with conflict alert advisories on arrival and surface targets. The prototype
    AMASS was enhanced by software and hardware changes to perform multiple sensor data fusion,
    which provided a complete track and identification picture of the airport movement area. This…

    Discusses a prototype Airport Movement Area Safety System (AMASS) originally designed to
    receive ASDE-3 and ARTS-IIIA data. These two data sources were applied to safety logic to provide
    air traffic controllers with conflict alert advisories on arrival and surface targets. The prototype
    AMASS was enhanced by software and hardware changes to perform multiple sensor data fusion,
    which provided a complete track and identification picture of the airport movement area. This surface
    surveillance system, combined with enhanced data links and displays, demonstrated the capability to maintain situational awareness in the tower and cockpit. This paper describes the performance of
    this surveillance system, as well as the impact of the system to current FAA airport services

    Other authors
    • Vincent Capezzuto
    • D Olster
    • M Curry
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Courses

  • AGI SDK

    AGI

  • Kalman Filtering

    UCLA Extension

  • Naval Tactical Data Systems

    Naval FCDSA

  • Opnet Modeling

    Opnet

  • Radar Detection and Tracking

    UCLA Extension

  • Requirements Tracking Management System

    RTMS

  • Systems Architect & DODAF

    Popkin

Projects

  • Multi Sensor Simulation

    Designed a detailed simulation of Naval air defense sensors including 2D radars (e.g. AN/SPS-40), 3D radars (e.g. AN/SPS-48E), Mark 12 AIMS IFF, and surface search radars (e.g. AN/SPS-10) to evaluate various data fusion algorithms and architectures on a single platform and with multiple platforms via Link 11 and Link 16.

  • CGN-38 Tactical Data System

    As representative of Naval Sea Systems Command, planned, supervised, conducted, and analyzed testing of the CGN-38 Tactical Data System software and hardware. This included detailed cost analysis of the Univac Proposal commended by the DCAS representative. Conducted detailed review of system specifications and software requirements documents.

  • JPTDS

    As representative of Naval Sea Systems Command, planned, supervised, conducted, and analyzed testing of the Junior Participating Tactical Data System software and hardware for the DDG-2 class ships.

  • Radar Video Processor Testing and Analysis

    As representative of Naval Sea Systems Command, planned, supervised, conducted, and analyzed testing of the Hughes Aircraft Systems Radar Video Processor software, hardware and application to various naval air defense radars. This included live testing at Navy Mare Island NTDS test site.

  • Sea Based Anti Ballistic Missile Defense Survivability & Performance Analysis

    Known as SABMIS, this was a proposed naval system to defend the continental US against Ballistic Missiles. Analysis was performed to define operational scenarios, stationing concepts, coverage against known threats, and vulnerability to various naval threats.

  • Project Harpy EW Performance Analysis

    Project Harpy was a spread spectrum data link predecessor to Link 16 using PRN, TDMA, and FDMA developed by Magnavox Research Laboratories to replace the tactical data links 11 and 4A. This analysis performed for Naval Electronic Systems Command developed various EW operational scenarios and predicted the performance of the new tactical data link compared to the baseline.

  • Application of Photochromic Materials to Optical Signal Processing

    Developed mathematical approach for two dimensional matched filter processing using Fourier transform holography with a helium neon CW laser. Evaluated various photochromic materials, including silver halide and organic. Using facilities of Research Laboratory of Electronics, applied optics in laboratory to demonstrate performance and limitations for text pattern recognition.

Languages

  • German

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  • French

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Organizations

  • INCOSE

    member

    - Present

    San Diego Chapter, Biomedical Working Group

  • IEEE

    Senior Life Member

    - Present

    Eta Kappa Nu (HKN), AES, MTT, AP

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