Adaptive Feature Extraction in High Clutter Environments

The AN/SPS-73(V)18 Next Generation Surface Search Radar (NGSSR) is an X-band radar that is being developed and produced to update the current AN/SPS-73(V)12 radar and replace AN/SPS-67(V)3/5 surface search and commercial navigation radars on U.S. Navy Surface Combatant ships. In its standard mode, the NGSSR simultaneously performs Navigation, Surface Search, and Periscope Detection and Discrimination (PDD) missions. Under Topic N192-059, The Probitas Project, Inc., developed radar sensor models and simulations to evaluate the ability of various radar sensors to detect and discriminate intermittent submarine mast exposures as well as innovative methods, techniques, and algorithms to reliability detect, track, and classify small targets like periscopes embedded in sea clutter. Under this Phase II effort, The Probitas Project will focus its radar detection, tracking, and classification technologies on improving NGSSR mission performance.