4 Antenna Software Defined Spectrum Monitor with PCMCIA Wireless Card Form Factor

Building upon its expertise in bringing Low SWaP multi-antenna mesh networked MIMO radios to the market, Silvus Technologies proposes a 4 Antenna Software Defined Spectrum Monitor (SDSM) in response to this SBIR topic. The low SWaP of the SDSM will enable integration into the ScanEagle UAV with already existing meteorological and other payloads. In order to negate the effect of the 3D antenna pattern of the antenna array Silvus Technologies proposes a variety of receive beamforming techniques that can turn the effective beampattern of the antenna array into an almost omni-directional pattern (Omnifying Beamforming). Dr. Peter Gerstoft, a Geophysicist at Scripps Institute of Oceanography will act as a consultant on the proposed effort.