Title
TCAR: The Trans-Atlantic Cooperation for a state-of-the-art AGS Radar
Author
TNO Defensie en Veiligheid
Hoogeboom, P.
Buvry, S.
Loehner, A.
Publication year
2007
Abstract
In view of the NATO Air-to-Ground Surveillance requirement and the results of the 2004 Feasibility Study on the development of an advanced SAR/MTI radar system, the TCAR industries, represented by a group of industries from 6 nations (FR, GE, IT, NL, SP, USA), have been tasked by the NATO AGS Prime Contractor to conduct a 6-month Risk Reduction Study. This study and follow-on activities have led to the current readiness level for a Design & Development contract. The architectural design of the system is based on knowledge from currently ongoing and legacy radar programs in these countries and the NATO AGS requirements. To perform the program the radar industries have founded the TCAR-Industries GmbH, which is a joint venture of these companies. A programmatic and technical overview of the TCAR program will be presented in this paper. Furthermore, a discussion is presented on global requirements, platform configuration, technical approach to simultaneous SAR and MTI operation, the global radar configuration, processing aspects and radar mode developments.
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1109/eumc.2007.4405488
TNO identifier
223459
Publisher
European Microwave Association EuMA, Louvain-la-Neuve
Source
European Microwace Week EuMW 2007 - Proceedings of the 37th European Microwave Conference - EuMC 2007, 8-12 October 2007, Munich, Germany, 1489-1494
Bibliographical note
Paper also presented at: EuRAD 2007
Document type
conference paper