Dr. Mark E. Davis has over 40 years experience in radar technology and systems development. He has held senior management positions in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Air Force Research Laboratory, and General Electric Aerospace. At DARPA, he was the government program manager on both the foliage penetration radar advanced development program and the GeoSAR foliage penetration mapping radar. He is a Fellow of both the IEEE and Military Sensing Symposia. Dr. Davis has published well over 100 papers in journals and proceedings.

• Chapter 1: History of Battlefield Surveillance


• Chapter 2: Foliage Penetration SAR Collection Systems


• Chapter 3: Foliage Penetration Phenomena


• Chapter 4: FOPEN SAR Image Foundation


• Chapter 5: Radio Frequency Interference Suppression


• Chapter 6: FOPEN Target Detection and Characterization


• Chapter 7: FOPEN SAR Design


• Chapter 8: FOPEN Ground Moving Target Indication


• Chapter 9: Bistatic FOPEN SAR

Key Features

* Ultrawideband waveform design and analysis including: methods for generating ultrawideband signals that do not interfere with emergency or flight safety frequencies; adaptive processing to reconstruct signals in a dense radio frequency interference environment.

* Characteristics of clutter, foliage scattering, and propagation that affect the detection and characterization of vehicles, buildings and terrain features.

* Specific studies into the benefits of: polarization for reduction of false alarms and characterizing vehicles under foliage; terrain features for land use cover characterization; generation of digital elevation maps for "bare earth" under the trees.

* Image formation processing with an emphasis on use of real time high performance processing, change detection and automatic target detection and classification.

* History of FOPEN with details of early systems that have only recently been released.

* Advanced topics that provide additional uses of FOPEN systems including: simultaneous SAR and GMTI operation; bistatic SAR utilizing a FOPEN GMTI radar's waveform.