1 Technology Service Corporation / California Operations FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Ground Moving Target Indicator (GMTI) Radar Discrimination of Combatants versus Animals in Severe Clutter SBIR Phase II Second QPR June 21, 2011 SBIR Topic SB Army Contract W31P4Q-10-C-0317

2 Technology Service Corporation / California Operations FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Welcome  Introductions  Lunch?  Today’s schedule and travel plans?

3 Technology Service Corporation / California Operations FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Agenda  Radar data collection  Site and targets  Hardware development  Preliminary data  Discrimination algorithm development  Micro-Doppler  Track-level  Lab tour  Discussion throughout

4 Technology Service Corporation / California Operations FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Program Overview  Phase II SBIR ($749K), Sept 2010 through Dec 2012  Develop dismount vs animal discrimination algorithms  Based on biological considerations  Use both Doppler (micro) and track (macro) level data  Collect clean micro-Doppler signatures of animals  Movie industry trained animals available as targets  Build a simple UHF radar  DARPA plus-up to include X-band radar  Incorporate GFI data such as FOPEN-GXP  Incorporate wild animal track data from biology community

5 Technology Service Corporation / California Operations FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Radar Data Collection Experiment  You saw this at the SRC QPR  I’ll focus on this month’s developments  Will make data available to FOPEN-GXP and others  Can collect additional data as needed (and funded)  Additional species  Additional geometries  Bring-your-own sensor (BYOS)  ARL interest example -Include acoustic/seismic sensors Precludes our use of a generator -Wants crawling dismounts in clear and brush Carry weapon simulants (metal pipe) Carry weapon confusers (wooden pole) Distinguish ridden from riderless horse

6 Technology Service Corporation / California Operations FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Bird Vortex Movie TSC C-band Radar Sample Synchronized Radar/Video Data

7 Technology Service Corporation / California Operations FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Radar Data Collection  Collect low-clutter signatures of a variety of species engaged in natural movements  UHF radar, X-band radar, HD video, all synchronized  “Hollywood Animals” (HA) provides trained subjects  Virtually any species is available  Trained to move freely from arbitrary point A to B  No human or leash in the radar scene  Use their ranch as collection site -Other sites available  Animal subjects issues  Working with UNM biology Professor Eric Toolson  Secured permission for animal subjects testing  Include human dismount subjects  Secured permission for human subjects testing  Shooting for initial animal collection late July

8 Technology Service Corporation / California Operations FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Some Candidate Radar Subjects

9 Technology Service Corporation / California Operations FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Negotiated Species  Large mammal -Spotted leopard -Cow -Water buffalo -Grizzly bear -Bengal tiger -Horse  Medium mammal -Large pink pig (similar to javelina, tapir, wild boar, feral pigs) -Sheep -Yellow Labrador retriever -Donkey  Brachiating -Chimpanzee -White-faced capuchin  Flying -Crow, falcon, hawk, vulture

10 Technology Service Corporation / California Operations FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY HA Ranch  Surface-level photos

11 Technology Service Corporation / California Operations FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY HA Ranch  Surface-level photos

12 Technology Service Corporation / California Operations FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Radar Siting  Animal targets largely on dirt roads  Beam boundaries shown for one candidate radar site

13 Technology Service Corporation / California Operations FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Hardware Development Status  UHF radar  Undergoing testing and refinement  RFI issues should abate at remote ranch site  X-band radar  Pre-existing radar is working  Data recorder nearing completion  Common data recorder  Separate recorder board for each radar in same chassis  GPS receiver for time tagging  Control both radars from same screen  Nearing completion  Video  Recording HD with GPS time  Format conversion issues being resolved

14 Technology Service Corporation / California Operations FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY RF Imaging System (RFIS)  In use at White Sands (below)  Showing TSC components (right)

15 Technology Service Corporation / California Operations FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Bring Your Dog to Work Day Dual-band radar collection June 7, 2011

16 Technology Service Corporation / California Operations FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Targets in Action

17 Technology Service Corporation / California Operations FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Hard at Work

18 Technology Service Corporation / California Operations FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Samples of Resulting Data  Videos  Small dog  Medium dog  Loose group of dismounts  X data  Medium dog  Loose group  UHF data  Medium dog  Dismount out and back

19 Technology Service Corporation / California Operations FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Algorithm Development Prof. Eric Toolson Mathematical Biologist University of New Mexico

20 Technology Service Corporation / California Operations FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Lab Tour

21 Technology Service Corporation / California Operations FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Program Status  Algorithm development  Working at lower level for now  Awaiting collected data  Could use FOPEN-GXP M330 horse accelerometer data  Animal microdoppler collection  Testing UHF radar  Completing X-band recorder  Field testing early July  Animal collection late July  Data distribution could start in August

22 Technology Service Corporation / California Operations FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Thank You!