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Abstract. The pace of modern military operations and the over-the-horizon range
capability of many weapons systems impose heavy demands on real-time
surveillance and intelligence support. For operations in the littoral zone,
there is a clear requirement for a relocatable, shore-based sensor
which can provide reliable all-weather detection of small surface and
aerial targets of interest out to ranges in excess of
100 kilometres from the coast. HF surface-wave radar (HFSWR) may
well provide the most cost-effective solution to this requirement, given
the results of recent trials of an experimental system developed
by the Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) in conjunction
with Telstra Applied Technologies and the Cooperative Research Centre for
Sensor Signal and Information Processing in Adelaide. This project, code-named
Iluka, involved the design and deployment of an HFSWR near
Darwin, together with support from various elements of the ADF
and other agencies which provided information on air and surface
movements of cooperating platforms as well as civilian targets of
opportunity within the area monitored by the radar. In this
paper we review the technology of HFSWR and discuss its
capabilities and limitations in the context of littoral warfare.
Related topics:
HF surface wave radar, radar, sensors, command systems
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