Airborne Multistatic Radar Systems

Purpose and goal:

The goal of the project has been to study and propose methods that can be used for airborne multistatic radar. To be more specific, the research has included algorithms that reduce the reliance on environmental assumptions.

This goal has been fulfilled. Moreover, the project generated valuable new steps towards alleviating the effect of a more complicated environment and complicated radar echo returns from ground clutter. The project outcome is more detailed in the below text fields on expected effects and results. Expected results and effects:

The project results are in several areas. One important part of the results is the refined models for the ground clutter echo signals that have been developed and studied. This work has shown that the algorithms (from earlier NFFP7 project) can cope with more realistic models for ground clutter. This is an important result towards systems that are substantially more robust for such clutter.

This has also a significant impact at project partners and helps to strengthen Saab’s and Chalmers’ expertise for these type of advanced radar systems. Approach and implementation:

The project has followed the outlined steps in the plan. First, substantial steps have been taken for more fundamental modelling of the problem (starting from the earlier NFFP7 project). This has also been guided, and supported, from an operational perspective with analyses performed at Saab.

The project also intended to recruit a Ph.D. student in this area. This has proven harder than initially thought. However, the more senior researchers have performed a larger part of the project work. The output from this part also provided valuable input for the two performed master theses.