Advanced radar modes for airborne surveillance radars

Author

Kirscht, Martin ; Dallinger, Alexander ; Mietzner, Jan ; Bickert, Bernhard ; Hippler, Jorg ; Zahn, Rudolf

Author_Institution

Airbus Defence & Space, Friedrichshafen, Germany

fYear

2015

fDate

24-26 June 2015

Firstpage

231

Lastpage

235

Abstract

The pod integrated variant of the airborne SmartRadar by AIRBUS Defence & Space, mounted under the wing of a Learjet 35 aircraft, is used as a testbed to develop advanced radar modes. The SmartRadar comprises a multi-phase-centre active electronically steered array (AESA) antenna, a flexible, wide-bandwidth radar core, and an on-board processing unit. During the last years, established modes like synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and ground moving target indication (GMTI) have been supplemented by newly developed maritime modes, e.g. maritime moving target indication (MMTI) and Open Sea modes. This paper gives an overview of the advanced radar modes and presents results from our 2014 flight campaigns.

Keywords

active antenna arrays; airborne radar; aircraft antennas; marine radar; military radar; radar antennas; search radar; synthetic aperture radar; AESA antenna; AIRBUS Defence & Space; GMTI; Learjet 35 aircraft; MMTI; SAR; advanced radar modes; airborne SmartRadar; airborne surveillance radars; ground moving target indication; maritime moving target indication; multi phase-centre active electronically steered array antenna; on-board processing unit; open sea modes; synthetic aperture radar; wide-bandwidth radar core; Aerospace electronics; Airborne radar; Radar antennas; Radar imaging; Spaceborne radar; Synthetic aperture radar;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radar Symposium (IRS), 2015 16th International

Conference_Location

Dresden

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IRS.2015.7226399

Filename

7226399