Flexible Radar Channel Model for Multi-Dimensional Radar
- Timothy Pelham
Abstract
The development of the networked battlespace as a concept, and the
wealth of wired and wireless communications to support it have opened
the door to truly multidimensional radar systems. Whether as a static
network of radars coordinating to provide national coverage, or a local
network for UAV's providing a swarm aperture for rapidly reconfigurable
airborne radar, there is an urgent need for a flexible radar channel
model to empower the engineer and scientist to develop new systems,
sensing algorithms and concepts of operation. LyceanEM, an open source
electromagnetics model is presented as a solution to this issue,
allowing for multi source, heterogeneous antenna arrays to be simulated
together with a radar target.