A Radar for Unmanned Air Vehicles
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چکیده
Over the years airborne radars have proven their value as wide-area, nearly all-weather surveillance tools. Typically, airborne radars are large systems mounted in manned aircraft. Lincoln Laboratory, however, has built a very capable radar system that is compact and lightweight; the radar has been integrated into an unmanned air vehicle (UAV). The work is sponsored by the Army's Harry Diamond Laboratories and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). A significant component of the radar is a Lincoln Laboratory-designed programmable processor that performs moving-target detection on board the UAV. The onboard processing permits the use of a UAV data link that transmits kilobits per second of moving-target reports instead of tens of megabits per second of raw radar data. The system-the airborne portion of which weighs only 110 lb-detects and tracks moving vehicles such as tanks, trucks, and low-flying helicopters out to a range of 15 km, and classifies them at shorter ranges.
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