Terma has been contracted by French navy ship builder DCNS to supply two SCANTER radars of the type 6000 to the French Navy carrier Charles de Gaulle (R91). It is the largest Western European warship and the tenth French aircraft carrier, commissioned in 2001.
The main task of the SCANTER radars as part of total radar suite aboard the carrier is to serve as a multi-role sensor system to meet requirements for navigation and tactical surface and air surveillance, Search & Rescue, and helicopter control.
Terma has previously delivered and installed the SCANTER 6000 on the French navy’s cutting edge Offshore Patrol Vessel (OPV) “L’Adroit”.
brochure_security___surveillance_radar_scanter_6000_-_naval_surveillance_radar.pdfSCANTER 6000
The SCANTER 6000 is a coherent X-band 2D solid state radar developed by Terma to address market requirements for improved surface and low airspace situational awareness. It has been specifically designed as an affordable all-weather sensor solution to plug the gap between standard marine navigation radars and more expensive military surveillance radar systems.Pedersen, J.C., "SCANTER 5000 and 6000 Solid State Radar: Utilisation of the SCANTER 5000 and 6000 series next generation solid state, coherent, frequency diversity and time diversity radar with software defined functionality for security applications," Waterside Security Conference (WSS), 2010 International , vol., no., pp.1,8, 3-5 Nov. 2010
doi: 10.1109/WSSC.2010.5730272
Abstract:
Coherent, Solid State Radar technology has been available for decades, however, it did not penetrate into harbor surveillance, VTS and related applications for cost and technical reasons. Technically, the main challenge is that dynamic requirements to radar in littoral waters and build up regions are much higher than to other radar applications. Those challenges have now been met and combined with well-renowned advantages from the Terma SCANTER product range. Methods are further refined and implemented on a new technology platform. The result is a software-defined radar series, tailored to individual market segments, virtually unrestricted by dynamic constraints. The digital radar concept with software-defined functionality makes the set-up of the radar easy. Furthermore, Interference rejection against disturbance from radars on ships passing nearby the radar has also proven effective, and the dynamic range has proved to be sufficient to eliminate any artifacts from a high number of large buildings and other structures in an operational area. Operational tests have been performed with impressive results.URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5730272&isnumber=5730220
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