Foliage Penetrating Radar Planning and Exploitation
Abstract
The Foliage Penetrating Radar Planning and Exploitation program developed and integrated exploitation capabilities that find and track 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 make situation assessment manpower and radar resource intensive. This program addressed these issues by (1) developing algorithms that exploit Doppler signature data to classify detections as dismounts, animals, clutter, or vehicles; and (2) developing group tracking software that automatically tracks groups of dismounts and provides an accurate group size ("raid count") to users. The Doppler discriminator and group tracking software were integrated into a stand-alone exploitation system which provides a significantly improved capability for finding and localizing targets under foliage, as well as providing automatic raid count and human/vehicle/animal/clutter classification. The program is transitioning to USSOUTHCOM and USSOCOM.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2014
- Source ID
- 72ca73cd524d0a7298e29e0a36076454
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