RADAR S AN D S E N S O R S

MIST
Multi-Intelligence Simulation Technology, or MIST, is SRC’s
solution to reducing risk in radar and sensor systems,
architecture and algorithm development.

SRC, formerly Syracuse Research APPLI CATIONS

Corporation, is a leading supplier of MIST’s generic object-oriented
high-performance, physics based architecture allows modeling a
simulation and modeling tools for number of different radar applications. THE MIST TECHNOLOGY IS A
the Department of Defense. SRC’s This includes simulations to detect
MIST software is an affordable high
COST-EFFECTIVE MEANS OF
moving targets in airborne, ground
fidelity, physics based radar simulation and space situations. MIST is also PREDICTING REAL-WORLD
package that provides phase-coherent powerful enough for the reproduction SYSTEM PERFORMANCE.
and time-domain in-phase and of high-resolution images of simulated
quadrature simulated receiver output synthetic aperture radar models. In
data that is MATLAB® compatible. addition, it is able to simulate the radio
frequency environment for ground-
Developed under the sponsorship of based, airborne or space-based
the U.S. government, it is available for signals intelligence platform collection.
use on other government-sponsored
programs. The MIST software is
used to simulate experiments and
synthesize data for radio frequency
systems, as well as data processing
algorithms under development. The
MIST technology is a cost-effective
means of predicting real-world system
performance without time consuming
and costly hardware prototyping and
data collection programs.

The simulation and modeling software

can be used for:
• Space and airborne radar programs
• Space and airborne
sensor integration SRC's MIST
technology
• Multi-static and bistatic radars simulating
• Adaptive processing techniques real-world
radar system
• Sensor development and testing performance.

The primary MIST output is a

MATLAB® compatible in-phase and
quadrature sampled time-domain
data stream that supports multi-phase
center antennas with independent
receiver channels.
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REALISTIC, ERROR MODELS FOR RUN TIME ENVIRONMENT FEATURES

• Multi-channel receivers The MIST simulator runs in a
networked PC environment:  ulti-static
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• User-supplied or synthesized sensor configuration
antenna responses • Windows XP, TCP/IP network
-- MIST is continually updated  round-to-space sensor
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to support the latest Windows
MODERN SIGNAL & DATA and target dynamics
operating system, including both
PROCESSING METHODS 32- and 64-bit architectures
• Range-Doppler and  ensor and target dynamics
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detection processing • Parallel-processing across multiple defined in a Satellite Tool Kit
PCs with workload distribution by compatible file format
• Space-time adaptive processing range cell
clutter cancellation  hase, polarization
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• Distributed component
• SAR processing sensitive processing
object model objects provide
interchangeable models of
scenario components  ultiple ground clutter
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USER INTERFACE models with digital terrain
MIST’s graphical user interface is a BELOW: Moving Target Detection - Air traffic elevation data and land
Java-based application that uses control scenario highlighting a comparison of target use land cover terrain and
detection on a conventional range-Doppler surface
an object-orientated hierarchical with target detection on a space-time adaptive
Doppler spreading
processing, clutter-suppressed surface.
approach for modular modeling of
 istatic target radar cross-
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scene geometry, sensor platforms,
section support
sensor elements, targets, and
ground clutter.  ack ‘N’ Go button
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packages all input files into
BELOW: SAR - Image of the Chesapeake Bay area one .mzip file
from an airborne SAR produced using MATLAB®
processing of a MIST time-domain data stream.

BELOW: SIGINT Collector Modeling - MIST outputs

time-domain sampled data that can be processed
to produce a “spectrum analyzer” or “oscilloscope”
display, and evaluate time difference of arrival, or
specific emitter identification processing techniques.

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