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Wind farms located within the line of sight of airborne radar systems can degrade the ability of the radars to perform their intended function of detecting and tracking aircraft. The magnitude of the impact will depend upon the location, number, size, and structural properties of the turbines. Wind turbines can generate a considerable amount of interference in the form of both stationary and non-s ...

An innovative, new adaptive signal processing solution is proposed for mitigation of the impact that wind turbine clutter has on airborne radar performance. Electromagnetic simulations are used to predict radar returns in the presence of wind turbine scattering, terrain multipath, and clutter from terrain and sea surfaces, not only for use in assessment of the solution, but also as a part of the i ...

In this SBIR project Wagner Associates, with Marine Information Resource Corporation (MIRC) as a subcontractor, will develop an Efficient Autonomous Sensor Performance Prediction (EASPP) system that will automatically and autonomously: (1) Generate the minimal number of required Transmission Loss (TL) and pseudo-TL (TL including reverberation) curves (referred to from here on as"TLs") necessar ...

The need exists for an autonomous Tactical Decision Aid (TDA) tool which can be used to optimize the effectiveness of Multi-Static Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) mission performance. The tool must make use of the most up-to-date and accurate environmental data obtained in real-time over a network interface. These environmental data include access to existing Naval Oceanographic Office environmental ...

Currently there is no tactical decision aid (TDA) for magnetic anomaly detection (MAD). Since the P-8A has no MAD capability, the planned approach to the localization phase of anti-submarine warfare (ASW) is to have the P-8A launch a MAD-equipped unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). However, the mission commander has no way to determine the likelihood that the UAV will be able to re-detect and localize ...

A multi-band dual-aperture SATCOM antenna is proposed to support rotary-wing aircraft thru-rotor performance at X, Ku and Ka-bands including Ku-band TCDL as an option. Our proposed effort focuses on a low-cost design with reduced height and leverages existing aperture and radome technology from our prime contractor partner Lockheed-Martin. It also leverages existing digital modem technology develo ...

Per the topic description, dense maritime environments pose significant challenges to naval airborne sensor systems with respect to surface target classification, track lifetime, and track association. A promising strategy to drastically improve situational awareness and reduce operator workload in these environments is to utilize a Feature Aided Tracking and Discrimination (FAT-D) capability in c ...

Conventional CFAR detection processing has difficulty in heterogeneous clutter (i.e., maritime clutter) because the fixed data size windowing is not well matched to the spatial scales of the wave field over a wide range of sea states. The non-Gaussian nature of heterogeneous clutter gives rise to significant spatially varying CFAR loss to maintain low false alarms that desensitize the radar in str ...

BTech proposes the design and development of low-profile, innovative acoustic velocity sensors for measuring acoustic motion of sound waves in marine applications. Methods include increasing voltage sensitivity by novel connections, considerations of co-located preamplifiers, multiple plates, improved materials and more. An improved acoustic motion accelerometer sensor for hull arrays is proposed ...

In this SBIR project Wagner Associates will develop Automated active Sonar Interference Avoidance algorithms (ASIA) that will automatically produce a recommended Active Sonar Interference Avoidance Plan (ASIAP). ASIA assisted automated and accurate sonar interference avoidance planning will: (1) Improve search effectiveness (i.e., reduced time to detect and classify a submarine target of inter ...