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Program Leader: Professor Yuri Abramovich
The Area Surveillance Technology Program is focused on over-the-horizon
radars (OTHR's). The ability of such radars to provide wide area surveillance
makes this technology especially suitable for Australia and its development
has driven much of CSSIP’s research with Telstra Applied Technologies
and DSTO.
Both sky and surface-wave OTHR’s provide the potential for increased
surveillance capabilities that have significant defence and commercial
application. Relatively low cost surface wave radar can provide reliable
coverage of coastal regions out to ranges of several hundred kilometres
with the potential to monitor Australia’s exclusive economic zone and
detect intruders. The development of both types of radars requires an
understanding of the fundamental propagation and noise characteristics
of the radars and the use of this information in the design of the radar
antennas, receivers and signal processing software. CSSIP’s research
will optimise the performance of such radars by designing, building
and experimentally measuring their performance under a range of operating
parameters. It is expected that this work will lead to a major new class
of radars for coastal surveillance.
A high frequency surface-wave radar receiving array and processing
system has been built, deployed and tested by CSSIP on experimental
trials in Northern Australia under contract to Telstra Applied Technologies.
The trials of adaptive multi channel calibration and novel antenna architectures
for reliable surface wave OTHR target detection have been completed
and the signatures of sky-wave (ionospherically propagated) signals
measured. The best antenna array candidates have been selected for future
experimental work.
For further details please contact:
Mr Geoff Vaughan-Evans
Centre Manager
CSSIP
Building P, Mawson Lakes Campus
University of South Australia
MAWSON LAKES
SA 5095 Australia
Phone: +61 8 8302 3923
Fax: +61 8 8302 5301
Email: gve@cssip.edu.au
or
Prof Yuri Abramovich
Area Surveillance Program,
SPRI Building
Mawson Lakes Boulevard
Mawson Lakes
SA 5095
Phone: +61 8 8302 3937
Fax: +61 8 8302 3124
Email: yuri.abramovich@cssip.edu.au
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