Flexible Radar Channel Model for Multi-Dimensional Radar

The development of the networked battlespace as a concept, and the wealth of wired and wireless communications to support it have opened the door to truly multidimensional radar systems. Whether as a static network of radars coordinating to provide national coverage, or a local network for UAV’s providing a swarm aperture for rapidly reconfigurable airborne radar, there is an urgent need for a flexible radar channel model to empower the engineer and scientist to develop new systems, sensing algorithms and concepts of operation. LyceanEM, an open source electromagnetics model is presented as a solution to this issue, allowing for multi source, heterogeneous antenna arrays to be simulated together with a radar target.