Focused Miniature Ordnance Technologies

The objective of this proposal is to design a software based radar scene generator system capable of producing synthetic radar stimulus data. This system is termed the Synthetic Radar Scene Generator (SRSG) system. The SRSG will generate synthetic aperture radar target and clutter data for use by real time radar environment simulator (RES) systems. The synthetic scenes, when executed on RES systems, will provide non-destructive functional testing of fuzing components. The SRSG generated data represents suitable terrain environments with user defined characteristics containing specific targets of interest while incorporating ballistic munitions trajectories for the simulated sensor platform motion. The Air Force needs an SRSG to create various scenes to evaluate next generation fuzing sensors against a wide diversity of targets. No single generation system for this data in these formats exists today. This SRSG will allow an operator to compose various scenes utilizing information from diverse terrain data and target signatures files. Various combinations of point targets or complex targets within typical backgrounds are required for synthetic scene environments. Military and civilian vehicles of all types are constantly being added to the list of potential targets that may be required to be included in a sensor evaluation. BENEFIT: Ability to test advanced seekers, plus reduction of time to test, and significantly reducing cost to test.