Ku-band retrodirective radar for ballistic projectile detection and tracking

Author

Brown, E.R. ; Brown, E.B. ; Hartenstein, A.

Author_Institution

Physical Domains, LLC, Glendale, CA

fYear

2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

A Ku-band radar has been developed for detection and tracking of sniper rifle bullets and other ballistic projectiles. The radar utilizes a novel retrodirective architecture based on separate 8-element receive and transmit antenna arrays. A pseudorandom noise waveform provides for precise ranging and high processing gain. Digital filtering allows for discrimination of high-velocity bullets and small supersonic projectiles up to at least 1700 ft/s, as demonstrated experimentally in field tests.

Keywords

ballistics; directive antennas; filtering theory; microwave antenna arrays; military radar; projectiles; radar antennas; radar target recognition; radar tracking; random noise; random sequences; target tracking; Ku-band retrodirective radar; ballistic supersonic projectile detection; ballistic supersonic projectile tracking; digital filtering; pseudorandom noise sequence; receive antenna array; sniper rifle bullet; transmit antenna array; Antenna arrays; Digital filters; Filtering; Projectiles; Radar antennas; Radar detection; Radar tracking; Receiving antennas; Testing; Transmitting antennas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radar Conference, 2009 IEEE

Conference_Location

Pasadena, CA

ISSN

1097-5659

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2870-0

Electronic_ISBN

1097-5659

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RADAR.2009.4977123

Filename

4977123