System upgrades and performance evaluation of the spectrally agile, frequency incrementing reconfigurable (SAFIRE) radar system

Brian R. Phelan; Kenneth I. Ranney; Marc A. Ressler; John T. Clark; Kelly D. Sherbondy; Getachew A. Kirose; Arthur C. Harrison; Daniel T. Galanos; Philip J. Saponaro; Wayne R. Treible; Ram Mohan Narayanan

doi:10.1117/12.2266217

System upgrades and performance evaluation of the spectrally agile, frequency incrementing reconfigurable (SAFIRE) radar system

Brian R. Phelan, Kenneth I. Ranney, Marc A. Ressler, John T. Clark, Kelly D. Sherbondy, Getachew A. Kirose, Arthur C. Harrison, Daniel T. Galanos, Philip J. Saponaro, Wayne R. Treible, Ram Mohan Narayanan

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The U.S. Army Research Laboratory has developed the Spectrally Agile Frequency-Incrementing Reconfigurable (SAFIRE) radar, which is capable of imaging concealed/buried targets using forward- and side-looking configurations. The SAFIRE radar is vehicle-mounted and operates from 300 MHz-2 GHz; the step size can be adjusted in multiples of 1 MHz. It is also spectrally agile and capable of excising frequency bands, which makes it ideal for operation in congested and/or contested radio frequency (RF) environments. Furthermore, the SAFIRE radar receiver has a super-heterodyne architecture, which was designed so that intermodulation products caused by interfering signals could be easily filtered from the desired received signal. The SAFIRE system also includes electro-optical (EO) and infrared (IR) cameras, which can be fused with radar data and displayed in a stereoscopic augmented reality user interface. In this paper, recent upgrades to the SAFIRE system are discussed and results from the SAFIRE's initial field tests are presented.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Radar Sensor Technology XXI
Editors	Armin Doerry, Kenneth I. Ranney
Publisher	SPIE
Volume	10188
ISBN (Electronic)	9781510608771
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2266217
State	Published - Jan 1 2017
Event	Radar Sensor Technology XXI 2017 - Anaheim, United States Duration: Apr 10 2017 → Apr 12 2017

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Other	Radar Sensor Technology XXI 2017
Country/Territory	United States
City	Anaheim
Period	4/10/17 → 4/12/17

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Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Condensed Matter Physics
Computer Science Applications
Applied Mathematics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Phelan, B. R., Ranney, K. I., Ressler, M. A., Clark, J. T., Sherbondy, K. D., Kirose, G. A., Harrison, A. C., Galanos, D. T., Saponaro, P. J., Treible, W. R., & Narayanan, R. M. (2017). System upgrades and performance evaluation of the spectrally agile, frequency incrementing reconfigurable (SAFIRE) radar system. In A. Doerry, & K. I. Ranney (Eds.), Radar Sensor Technology XXI (Vol. 10188). [1018812] SPIE. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2266217

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