Space-based radar signal processing baselines for air, land and sea applications

Abstract

Space-based radar can provide wide-area surveillance and theatre defence against targets in the air, on land, and at sea. This paper describes the airborne and ground-moving target indication problems, and examines environmental and system issues that impact space-based radar design. Radar design and signal processing techniques are presented that help target detection in the presence of clutter, jamming, and noise. Cost-performance trade-offs are used to derive radar signal processing baselines (configurations) that are proposed as candidate solutions.