Contact Dr Daniel Andre
- Email: d.andre@cranfield.ac.uk
- ORCID
Areas of expertise
- Computing, Simulation & Modelling
- Defence Sensors
- Monitoring and Environmental Informatics
Background
Daniel has conducted research in Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) related Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) image feature extraction, understanding and simulation during the course of his radar career based first at DERA, QinetiQ, Dstl and now Cranfield University.
In the field of Interferometric-SAR (InSAR) he developed a novel understanding of SAR image coherence over mountainous terrain. In this area he developed a new image formation algorithm designed to remove topographically related incoherence from interferograms and Coherent Change Detection (CCD) products, winning a UK civil service scientist innovation award in 2011 - the John Benjamin Memorial prize.
This work has been extended to bistatic and SAR near-field geometries. He also researches bistatic polarimetry, multipath, vibrometry, Radar Cross Section (RCS) prediction at both low and high frequency bands, and 3D multistatic image formation.
In 2017 Daniel took leadership of the Cranfield Ground-Based SAR Laboratory.
In 2023, Daniel was awarded a Simon Fellowship by the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, participating in the "Rich and Nonlinear Tomography" research programme.
Daniel has a PhD in Applied Mathematics and a Joint Honours BSc in Mathematics and Physics
Research opportunities
Current Interests and projects are in the following areas:
- Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imaging techniques and phenomenology in conventional and multistatic scenarios,
- Interferometric SAR (InSAR) for terrain elevation determination (Digital Terrain Elevation Data (DTED) / Digital Elevation Models (DEM)),
- SAR Coherent Change Detection (CCD) in challenging scenarios including in bistatic SAR near-field with substantial terrain topography,
- Ultra Wide-Band (UWB), polarimetric and microdoppler SAR phenomenology,
- Radar Cross-Section (RCS) prediction and measurement,
- Three-dimensional, volumetric and through-wall imaging,
- Remote sensing.
Current activities
Daniel heads the Cranfield University Ground-Based SAR Laboratory (GBSAR Lab).
PhD Students, completed:
- Dr George Price, "Sidelobe Suppression Techniques for Short-Range Distributed-Aperture Synthetic Aperture Radar"
- Dr Alexander Hagelberg, "Bistatic and Multistatic Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometric Phenomenology and Change Detection"
- Dr James Elgy, "Bistatic SAR for Building Wall Material Characterisation"
- Dr Brandon Corbett, "Remote Intelligence of Building Interiors, Using Synthetic Aperture Radar"
- Dr Alexander Edwards-Smith, "Subsurface Radar Imaging from Space"
PhD Students, current:
- Mr Richard Welsh
- Mr Anmol Rattan
Clients
Dstl: Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
ATI: Alan Turing Institute
ESA: European Space Agency
BAE
Roke Manor
AreSys
Noveltis
QinetiQ
FABW: Find a Better Way, now "Sir Bobby Charlton Foundation"
RADI: Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences
DfT: UK Department for Transport
Publications
Articles In Journals
- Price GAJ, Andre D, Moate C, Yuen P & Finnis M. (2025). Modelling real‐world effects in near‐field SAR collections for compressive sensing. IET Radar, Sonar & Navigation, 19(1)
- Rattan A, Andre D & Finnis MV. (2025). Multistatic synthetic aperture radar autofocus for back projection imaging of a moving target. Electronics Letters, 61(1)
- Welsh R, Andre D & Finnis M. (2025). Polarimetry for sparse multistatic 3D SAR. IET Radar, Sonar & Navigation, 19(1)
- Welsh R, Andre D & Finnis M. (2024). Laboratory multistatic 3D SAR with polarimetry and sparse aperture sampling. IET Radar, Sonar & Navigation, 18(1)
- Hagelberg A, Andre D & Finnis M. (2024). Combined intensity and coherent change detection with four classes for laboratory multistatic polarimetric synthetic aperture radar. IET Radar, Sonar & Navigation, 18(11)
- Watson F, Andre D & Lionheart WRB. (2024). Resolving full-wave through-wall transmission effects in multi-static synthetic aperture radar. Inverse Problems, 40(8)
- Hagelberg A, Andre D & Finnis M. (2024). Bistatic multi‐polarimetric synthetic aperture radar coherence investigation using spatially variant incoherence trimming. IET Radar, Sonar & Navigation, 18(12)
- Price GAJ, Moate C, Andre D & Yuen PWT. (2023). Sidelobe suppression techniques for near-field multistatic SAR. Sensors, 23(2)
- Welsh R, Andre D & Finnis M. (2023). Volumetric interferometry for sparse 3D synthetic aperture radar with bistatic geometries. Electronics Letters, 59(12)
- Hagelberg A, Andre D & Finnis M. (2023). Laboratory bistatic synthetic aperture radar coherent change detection investigation. Electronics Letters, 59(15)
- Selvagumar S, Yuen PWT, Soori U, Piper J, James D, .... (2022). Modelling of a new X-ray backscatter imaging system: simulation investigation. Journal of Imaging Science and Technology, 66(3)
- Andre D, Sabiers R & Finnis M. (2022). Through-wall multistatic polarimetric 3D SAR. NATO STO Review, Spring 2022
- Morrison K, Andre D, Bennett J, Finnis M, Blacknell D, .... (2021). A New Resonance Phenomenon Observed in UWB 14–50 GHz SAR and Its Application to the Retrieval of Thickness and Dielectric Properties of Scene Features. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 57(2)
- Elgy J, Andre D & Finnis MV. (2021). Bistatic 3D SAR for wall parameter extraction in cluttered environments. Electronics Letters, 57(21)
- Elgy J, Andre D & Finnis MV. (2020). Volumetric SAR near-field upsampling and basebanding. Electronics Letters, 56(12)
- Corbett B, Andre D & Finnis MV. (2020). Localising vibrating scatterer phenomena in synthetic aperture radar imagery. Electronics Letters, 56(8)
- Corbett B, Andre D & Finnis MV. (2017). Through-Wall Detection and Imaging of a Vibrating Target Using Synthetic Aperture Radar. Electronics Letters, 53(15)
- Andre D, Faulkner B & Finnis MV. (2017). Low-frequency 3D synthetic aperture radar for the remote intelligence of building interiors. Electronics Letters, 53(15)
