Ultra-High Frequency Clutter Model for Airborne Surveillance Radar

This proposal presents a new way of testing airborne radar systems that employ adaptive signal processing techniques for ground clutter mitigation. The proposed approach is based on ISL’s Real-time Electromagnetic Environment Simulator RTEMES(TM) technology that presents a radar system with a highly realistic virtual clutter environment. The new approach provides highly robust testing of adaptive systems at a fraction of the cost of current approaches involving flight testing. Under this Phase II SBIR project ISL will develop an overall solution for simulating high-fidelity, multi-channel, RF clutter signals to support advanced testing of the E-2D radar using a real-time hardware-in-the-loop (HWIL) system. The main objective of the Phase II effort is a hardware prototype and demonstration.