Wide-Angle Multisensor Data Collection System

We propose a two-phase effort to design and build a low-cost, ground-based multisensor signature collection system for use in the construction and validation of multi-phenomenology physics-based target and clutter signature models. The proposed system will consist of a reconfigurable array of multi-static radar receivers and a wide-angle transmitter on a portable platform. It will also include an array of video cameras aligned and bore-sighted with the radar array. Subsequent designs may also include an array of IR cameras. The video camera array will enable the construction of a 3D model of the target surface geometry from the radar look direction.