TCAR, the transatlantic cooperative AGS radar: a programmatic and technical overview

In view of the NATO Air to Ground Surveillance requirement a feasibility study on the development of an advanced SAWTI radar system has been conducted by a group of industries from 6 nations (FR, GE, IT, NL, SP, USA). The architectural design of the system is based on knowledge from currently ongoing radar programs in these countries. A programmaiic and technical overview of the TCAR program will be presented in this paper. Furthermore a discussion is presented on global requirements, platform configurations and scalability aspects, technical approach to simultaneous SAR and MTI operation, global radar configuration, processing aspects, radar mode developments.