Real time MTI STAP first results from SOSTAR-X flight trials

Author

Zei, D. ; Mele, F. ; Tellini, P. ; Montanari, A. ; Fusaroli, A. ; Grazia, P. Di ; Annessi, G.

Author_Institution

SELEX GALILEO, Pomezia

fYear

2008

fDate

26-30 May 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

This paper presents the achievements of the flight campaign of the SOSTAR-X (stand-off surveillance and target acquisition radar) program relevant to the ground moving target indicator (GMTI) modes designed for wide area surveillance and fast sector scan. The SOSTAR-X is the European technologic demonstrator for an advanced AESA (Active Electronically Steered Antenna) airborne radar sensor. This program can be considered as the first European Consortium adventure for this kind of radar. It completed formal acceptance flight tests on July 2007, demonstrating on the field the fulfilment of all the main performance requirements. Some considerations are also addressed about the main issues to be investigated with the use of real data.

Keywords

airborne radar; search radar; space-time adaptive processing; target tracking; SOSTAR-X; airborne radar sensor; fast sector scan; ground moving target indicator; space-time adaptive processing; stand-off surveillance target acquisition radar; wide area surveillance; Aerospace electronics; Airborne radar; Calibration; Frequency selective surfaces; High-resolution imaging; Image resolution; Radar antennas; Surveillance; Synthetic aperture radar; Testing; DOA; GMTI; STAP;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radar Conference, 2008. RADAR '08. IEEE

Conference_Location

Rome

ISSN

1097-5659

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1538-0

Electronic_ISBN

1097-5659

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RADAR.2008.4720858

Filename

4720858