Software defined L-band noise radar demonstrator

Abstract

The NATO SET-225 Research Group has mainly been working to share experience of processing noise radar signals to address the limitations of current approaches in order to increase the range of noise radar applications. This paper defines a software defined L-band noise radar technology (NRT) demonstrator. This radar design process has originally started as an endeavour to build a digital signal processing (SP) back-end for noise radar SP studies and ended up as an L-band noise radar by itself. The SP back-end of the defined L-Band noise radar will be used with the X-band NRT demonstrator being designed by the NATO SET-225 group, during the trials to be performed at the Fraunhofer FHR Institute/Wachtberg in summer 2016.