The Mitre Corporation

Alex Brofos

Brett C Bishop

Craig P Vandervest

A system and method for identifying slow-moving and smaller flying objects using one or more radar based sensors is provided. In one or more examples, a radar system can be configured to generate plot data corresponding to flying objects in a given airspace. A tracker can be configured to receive the plot data, and can be configured to generate one or more tracks. The one or more tracks generated by the tracker can then be inputted into a classifier that is configured to distinguish unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) traffic from birds that are flying in the airspace. In one or more examples, the classifier can generate an N-dimensional hypercube, with each dimension of the hypercube pertaining to a specific attribute of the flying objects. Each track can be converted into a data point within the hypercube and the data points can be clustered to determine whether the track belongs to a bird or a UAV.

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Hopkinton, NH, United States of America

Alex Brofos