Towards a Cognitive Radar: Canada’s Third-Generation High Frequency Surface Wave Radar (HFSWR) for Surveillance of the 200 Nautical Mile Exclusive Economic Zone

Sensors

Peter Moo¹  Anthony Ponsford²  Zhen Ding³  Derek Yee³  Rick McKerracher⁴ 

[1] Ottawa, ON K1A 0Z4, Canada;Former Employee of Raytheon Canada Limited, 400 Phillip Street, Waterloo, ON N2L 6R7, Canada;Radar Sensing and Exploitation Section, Defence Research and Development Canada;Raytheon Canada Limited, 400 Phillip Street, Waterloo, ON N2L 6R7, Canada;

关键词: over-the-horizon radar;    HFSWR;    cognitive;    sense-and-adapt;    dynamic spectrum management;    dynamic spectrum access;    maritime domain awareness;    maritime surveillance;    MIMO;   

DOI  :  10.3390/s17071588

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Canada’s third-generation HFSWR forms the foundation of a maritime domain awareness system that provides enforcement agencies with real-time persistent surveillance out to and beyond the 200 nautical mile exclusive economic zone (EEZ). Cognitive sense-and-adapt technology and dynamic spectrum management ensures robust and resilient operation in the highly congested High Frequency (HF) band. Dynamic spectrum access enables the system to simultaneously operate on two frequencies on a non-interference and non-protected basis, without impacting other spectrum users. Sense-and-adapt technologies ensure that the system instantaneously switches to a new vacant channel on the detection of another user or unwanted jamming signal. Adaptive signal processing techniques mitigate against electrical noise, interference and clutter. Sense-and-adapt techniques applied at the detector and tracker stages maximize the probability of track initiation whilst minimizing the probability of false or otherwise erroneous track data.

【 授权许可】

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