Sunday, May 3, 2015

Radar developed to detect small UAV and suppress Wind Turbines

Radar developed to detect small drones - BBC News







aveillant Holographic Radar
Brochure_exhiReg251734_Holographic Radar - Target-Centric Surveillance.pdf

Aveillant's products represent the biggest change in surveillance technology for over 50 years.  It has been designed not merely to detect a target, but to fully understand that target in real time.  Based on a static modular solid state array, which can be configured to suit a range of surveillance requirements, it differs from traditional rotating surveillance radars providing:
  • Intelligent characterisation and identification of target returns
  • Clutter-free surveillance with an extremely high Probability of Detection (PD) and low False Alarm Rate
  • An exceptionally high update rate (up to 4Hz)
  • A 3D real-time tracking capability
  • Low cost of through-life ownership
  • Spectrum efficient (2MHz)
  • Multiple applications from one solution (SMR)
Holographic Radar™ provides truly volumetric, continuous 3D surveillance.  It recognises what it sees and so can provide a clutter-free picture to the operator - it is a surveillance system with an inherent situational awareness.  It provides this capability by spending 100% 'time on target', unlike rotating radars which lose sight of the target on each rotation and then have to reacquire the target each time.  This huge amount of information enables Holographic Radar to identify and characterise what it sees, making it ideal for a broad range of surveillance problems and at the same time reducing cost through the use of a single sensor for multiple tasks.

How it works

Holographic Radar™ uses a custom phased array which is fully configurable and forms many beams in three dimensions that allow it to observe, resolve, detect, measure and classify all targets persistently. The array of radar modules can be arranged to view sectors from 60° to 360° out to 40 nautical miles and are housed within a protective radome. 144 azimuth beams (2.5 degrees) are formed and 16 elevation beams, yielding 2,304 search beams altogether. A second tranche of precision beamforming is used for precise target positioning.
Each receiver array is provided with access to over 1 TeraFlop of processing and the total processing capacity is approximately 50 TFlops, of which the majority is used for beamforming, Doppler processing and range/Doppler filtering for the many staring beams. 24 GFlops is available for detection and track processing and this extensive parallel processing capability provide the real-time monitoring and tracking ability that is unique to Holographic Radar™.

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