How Noise Radar Technology Brings Together Active Sensing and Modern Electronic Warfare Techniques in a Combined Sensor Concept

Research on modern EW algorithms follows a trend of increasing digital hardware implementations. The powerful features of these digital algorithms allow detection, location, identification and jamming of hostile radars. This paper presents a sensor concept in which mature EW features are expanded by an active sensing component using noise radar technology. It is shown that the flawless integration of noise radar into the EW functionality is accompanied with effective separation of all concurrent but different tasks of the combined sensor. Experimental results are presented which underline the basic idea of noise radar technology being the key enabler of this combined sensor concept.