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Noise Radar-Overview and Recent Developments
Modern design techniques can address the dynamic
range issue and allow practical systems to be built using
NRT, which can exploit its strengths.
Recent work, much of it supported by NATO
Research Technology Groups, has led to the building and
testing of demonstration systems that can match the performance of low-power radar systems such as small
marine radars. The testing of these demonstrators has
shown that the issues involved in building a noise radar
with such a sensitivity are understood, which has paved
the way to their full-scale development.
The process of testing these radars focused attention
on the fact that the characterization of noise radars
requires some techniques that are different from those
used for DRT. These issues will be addressed in a systematic manner in future work.
Although this article has not discussed ECCM
measurements, the radars described provide suitable
systems for experiments to look at this important aspect
of NRT.
A final point to note is that a large amount of work has
been accomplished with modest resources by the members
of the NATO groups, particularly the most recent,
SET-225, working very well together to share knowledge,
experience, and ideas.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Konstantin A. Lukin and Sergii Lukin acknowledge partial
support of recent Ground-based Noise SAR design by the
SPS NATO Program under Grant G5465 and Grant G5395.
The authors would like to acknowledge the contribution to the work described in this paper by Noise Radar
Group at Warsaw University of Technology.

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