Foliage Penetrating Radar Planning and Exploitation
Abstract
The Foliage Penetrating Radar Planning and Exploitation program will complete final Forester FOPEN radar demonstrations and provide further exploitation capabilities to find dismounted targets in densely forested terrain. Current foliage penetrating radar systems provide an important capability for detecting dismount targets under foliage, but the systems also detect animals, moving water, blowing trees, and other scene clutter moving under or in the foliage that makes situation assessment manpower and radar resource intensive. Further, Doppler signature data that experiments indicate may enable improved automated discrimination of dismount targets from other detections is not currently exploited. Finally, no planning tools are available for optimizing and dynamically replanning collection assets to improve imaging geometries and detectability. This program will provide capabilities to address these issues by exploiting Doppler signature data, automating temporal processing approaches currently used, and automating terrain, weather, and on-line exploitation data to enable planning and dynamic replanning. The result will be significantly improved capability for finding and localizing targets under foliage. The program will transition to USSOUTHCOM and USSOCOM.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2012
- Source ID
- 1e5b03540822d0bff00a4b5b33cb5d6b
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