Initial results for compressive sensing in Electronic Support receiver systems

The agile bandwidths of modern radars mean that Electronic Support (ES) receivers require wide instantaneous bandwidths leading to high data rates. Compressive sensing is shown to be a promising technique for reducing data rates for a number of representative radar waveforms. Real-time hardware implementation of compressive sensing is shown to be achievable with modern signal-processing technologies. Compressive sensing thus holds tremendous potential for use in ES systems.