CAE Soft Corporation proposes to develop a unified, simultaneous, and power efficient "Intense Moving Target Surveillance (IMTS)" airborne radar mode that exploits the complimentary aspects of individual SAR, GMTI, AMTI, and ATR modes enabled by using shared aperture, shared energy approaches. The IMTS mode will have the ability to continuously and simultaneously detect, maintain track, and geo-locate airborne, ground moving, and stationary targets as well as perform cumulative ID though all phases of their movement history over wide areas. This ability to continuously track and ID both Airborne Targets (ATs) that weave or hover and Ground Moving Targets (GMTs) that repeatedly move, stop, and move in a dense moving object environment would significantly improve the Air Force's capability in the critical areas of battle space awareness and tracking and targeting of time critical targets. The anticipated benefits are the development of a specific simultaneous IMTS mode but the methodology of the development will extend to both military and commericial applications. Potential civilian applications include airport surveillance radars and multi-function radars for commercial aviation that simultaneously perform wind shear detection and landing assistance displays as well as remote sensing for earth resources. The most applicable for this technique is for earth resources remote sensing function which requires the removal of stationary and moving man-made objects from the data so that the background soils and crops can be examined.
