Session
Technical Session VI: Advanced Concepts
Abstract
Recent work on key technological problems of self-cohering and high speed processing has led to a concept for distributed space based radar. Experimentally demonstrated self-cohering techniques allows a duster of small satellites to form a coherent aperture even though the position of each satellite in the cluster is not precisely known. The signal processing of the receive beams has been sized and the architecture of spaceborne VLSI processor outlined and shown to the practical in size, weight and power consumption. Clutter is reduced by the extremely narrow receive beams so that small targets can he detected and tracked. The goal is to achieve a low life cycle cost of this sensor system using light satellite technology.
Distributed Aperture Radar using Small Satellites
Recent work on key technological problems of self-cohering and high speed processing has led to a concept for distributed space based radar. Experimentally demonstrated self-cohering techniques allows a duster of small satellites to form a coherent aperture even though the position of each satellite in the cluster is not precisely known. The signal processing of the receive beams has been sized and the architecture of spaceborne VLSI processor outlined and shown to the practical in size, weight and power consumption. Clutter is reduced by the extremely narrow receive beams so that small targets can he detected and tracked. The goal is to achieve a low life cycle cost of this sensor system using light satellite technology.
