Research Summaries

Back Propagation Channel Assessment and Prediction (PCAP): A Global Refractivity Information Database (GRID) for Electronic Warfare Prediction

Fiscal Year 2018
Division Graduate School of Engineering & Applied Science
Department Meteorology
Investigator(s) Frederickson, Paul A.
Sponsor Office of Naval Research (Navy)
Summary This proposed effort is in support of the Propagation Channel Assessment and Prediction (PCAP) project development. There is a pressing need for a database that characterizes atmospheric impacts on the SLQ-32 electronic warfare (EW) system deployed on major U.S. Navy surface ships. This proposal is to develop such a database, which needs to provide global coverage and must extend through the troposphere to be applicable to both surface and airborne emitters. The database must not only represent the mean or most common atmospheric conditions, but also anomalous conditions that can be expected to be encountered. The database will be incorporated and used with an electromagnetic (EM) propagation assessment tool, such as Builder. The use of the database to characterize atmospheric impacts on the SLQ-32 system will be performed largely “under the hood,” without the expectation or need of input from a sophisticated METOC user.
Keywords Electromagnetic Propagation Electronic Warfare Propagation Channel Assessment and Prediction (PCAP) SLQ-32
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