Development and Demonstration of Ship-Tracking Capabilities for a Dual-Use Multi-static Long-Range HF Radar Network

Scott Glenn, Rutgers University
Don Barrick, CODAR Ocean Sensors, Ltd.
William Browning, Applied Mathematics, Inc.

ONR, NOPP, NOAA/NURP and the State of New Jersey have supported the past and ongoing development for the New Jersey Shelf Observing System. This includes the development of a multi-static long-range CODAR HF Radar network capable of mapping ocean currents over the entire the New Jersey continental shelf.  Within this developing multi-static network, shore-based 5 MHz monostatic CODARs, ship-based 5 MHz bistatic CODAR transmitters, and independent shipboard GPS data have been used to demonstrate some aspects of the ship tracking capabilities of long-range CODAR HF Radars.  Results were presented at recent talks at AGU Ocean Sciences in Honolulu, Oceanology International in London, and at the Radiowave Oceanography Workshop in Brest, France (http://marine.rutgers.edu/cool/coolresults/agu2002/index.html).