The CREST challenge, overview and analysis

In support of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Advanced Signal Processing program a challenge had been issued to the radar and signal processing community. Several simulated data sets that emulate a flying phased array surveillance radar were created and placed on the World Wide Web as a challenge to resolve all target information. All data sets for the challenge were created with the Rome Laboratory Space Time Adaptive Processing Algorithm Development Tool. This paper describes to date the properties of the data sets, the generation of the data sets, and some preliminary analysis using standard baseline space time adaptive processing algorithms.