Design of a Noise Radar Demonstrator

The NATO SET-225 Research Group is planning a series of live trials of Noise Radar technology to be performed in summer, 2016 at the Fraunhofer FHR Institute in Wachtberg (near Bonn). The preliminary architecture of the Demonstrator to be used in these trials is described starting from aims and requirements and arriving to define the main system functions, the parameters and the signal processor. It results that this low-cost demonstrator, although mostly implemented using commercial (or anyway, available) equipment and components, will be functionally close enough to a fully-developed operational Noise Radar system as much as to allow us to assess the potential performance of the operational radar, together with the potential plan and effort required to deliver such a system.