SBIR-STTR Award

RADAR performance simulators today fall into 1 of 2 categories. The first rely on terrain data from DTED type databases to address siting issues, and the second on high fidelity physics based target models that can descibe RADAR performance against targets. Neither address RADAR performance issues stemming from clutter rejecton capabilities and variation in target and clutter cross-section due to weather and RF propagation effects. These are the issues which tend to dominate real world RADAR performance. This SBIR addresses a simulator architecture that allows models from various sources and measured data as applicable to be integrated to provide a complete RADAR environment. The physics based Radar Scene Generator (RSG) approach provides extremely high fidelity output that can be used to assess real world RADAR performance accurately.