Retro-directive Ultra-Fast Acquisition Sensor (RUFAS)
Abstract
The Retro-directive Ultra-Fast Acquisition Sensor (RUFAS) effort designed, constructed, and demonstrated an X-band noise correlating radar with a retro-directive antenna. This effort researched and developed a new type of radar sensor based on the correlations of the Gaussian noise received by an antenna array from a small object located in the far field of the antennas and the retro-directive reradiation of the correlated noise. Combining and tailoring noise correlating interferometry and retro-directive antenna arrays into a retro-directive noise-correlating (RNC) radar allows the radar to operate in omni-directional search mode. The result of this project is technology supporting a new type of search-mode radar having promising performance in terms of short acquisition time and low probability-of-intercept.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2012
- Source ID
- b6ce8c3742643378c055469cc1a986d7