Coalition Tactical Awareness and Response (CTAR)
Abstract
CTAR provides a highly mobile capability adaptable to austere operating environments to receive commercial satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR). CTAR produces value-added maritime vessel detection position reporting via Over The Horizon Gold (OTG) Message Transmission Format. This enables detection of "dark" vessels because they are not emitting electromagnetic radiation from radar or other electro-magnetic communications. CTAR's wide area SAR field of view will be used to cue commercial Electro-Optical (EO) imaging satellites for higher resolution collection against vessels of interest.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2016
- Source ID
- bf58391e3f5c87cd1ccf503f64ccf94f