Radar Software Development for the Surveillance of Indonesian Aerospace Sovereignty

Abstract

In this paper, design and development of air surveillance radar software using QT creator application is presented. The software manufacture was performed in two stages, where the first stage is to design a flowchart and the second stage is to create the program using codes. Radar software must be integrated with hardware to display the results of the target detection. All detection results will be shown on the plan position indicator (PPI) display. From the detection results, all flying objects that can reflect radar signals will be shown in the display, i.e., airplanes, clouds, birds, mountains, tall buildings, as long as they are still in the radar detection range. The radar software has been tested with very significant good results. To only see moving objects such as high-speed aircrafts, moving target indicator (MTI) feature is enabled. The radar software was shown to be able to track objects and to create guard zones feature as an observation area.