SBIR-STTR Award

Will develop and characterize a real-time SAR imaging and CCD system based on an SRC Hi-BAR architecture. The system will support high data bandwidth for very wide area imaging, and will include mixed architecture compute nodes for optimal performance.

Benefit:
The system will demonstrate an effective wide-area SAR imaging and tracking capability for support of counter-terrorism operations. System should be of interest to a variety of DoD and homeland security programs.

Keywords:
Map, Wide-Area Sar And Ccd

SET Corporation proposes to design, implement, and demonstrate a scalable system for real-time, wide area SAR image formation and Coherent Change Detection. This will require adaptation of the existing range compression and spotlighting algorithms for efficient FPGA implementation. It will involve implementation of those algorithms using Nallatech FPGA modules, which interface directly with an Intel front-side bus. It will involve evaluation of the Larrabee GPU and creation of a high-performance, double precision GPU imaging implementation. It will require incorporation of the existing Matlab CCD process into the C++ application. Finally, it will require development of appropriate data storage and user interface solutions, and integration of all of the system components.

Benefit:
The technology offers a powerful capability that enables persistent surveillance analysis of SAR data at operations and analysis centers in theater that don’t have abundant computing resources. This provides persistent surveillance data to a larger audience of Intelligence Analysts. This will significantly improve counter IED operations performance by providing increased access to critical surveillance data. This technology has broad ranging implications for our U.S. military in Iraq and Afghanistan, where IEDs remain the number one cause of military casualties.The technology can also be used for border surveillance to detect and track illegals.

Keywords:
Embedded Grep, Sar, Change Detection, Tracking, Wide Area Persistent Sensing, Radar, Spotlighting, Counter Ied