ARES: radar data generator for systems design and development

The Airborne Radar Environment Simulator (ARES) is a radar data generator tool capable of simulating returns from airborne and surface targets, ECM and also includes surface and volume clutter and atmospheric effects. The data output is time series signals at baseband IQ level. This data can be used for various purposes in support of the design and development life cycle of a radar system: theoretical studies of radar phenomena, design of signal processing algorithms and in providing test vectors for software development, The GEDAE software development tool allows the import of the data generated by ARES to provide test vectors representative of real radar data for use in signal processor software design and implementation.