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tactical reconnaissance and counter-concealment-enabled radar – TRACER is a mid-range, long wavelength

synthetic aperture radar Synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) is a form of radar that is used to create two-dimensional images or three-dimensional reconstructions of objects, such as landscapes. SAR uses the motion of the radar antenna over a target region to provide fine ...

(SAR) system that provides all-weather persistent surveillance developed by the

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Intelligence and Information Warfare Directorate The Intelligence and Information Warfare Directorate (or I2WD) is a component of the US Army Communications-Electronics RD&E Center, based out of Aberdeen Proving Ground. Consisting of five primary divisions, I2WD forms a Research and Develop ...

. The TRACER program began in April 2007 and has been integrated onto a

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. In the fall of 2010, it is planned to test TRACER on

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s unmanned Predator-B IKHANA, and later on

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.Kushiyama, Kristen. "High-Tech Radar Cuts Through The “Foliage”." CERDEC U.S.ARMY RDECOM. United States Army, June 7, 2010. Web. June 18, 2010. . Due to its decreased size, weight and power consumption compared to the predecessor foliage-penetrating radar program, or FOPEN which has been in the field since the late-90s, TRACER operates on manned and unmanned platforms and produces images on board in less than five minutes. As a follow-on to FOPEN, the TRACER system can be tailored to specific missions by providing a variety of SAR images including strip maps and spotlight and circle images.

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