What are the current applications of UWB?
UWB RADAR has been researched for some time as a method of defeating stealth aircraft and as electronic counter measures. Because of the bandwidth occupied by UWB RADAR, it is difficult to develop a system that can jam the RADAR or can effectively appear invisible to the RADAR. Several civilian systems take advantage of these properties, including: • Secure Communication Systems (hard to jam or detect), • Ground Penetrating RADAR, and • Obstacle Avoidance RADAR. Both civilian RADAR systems take advantage of the fact that while there may be no one specific frequency that is ideal (or adequate) for the application, the UWB RADAR examines many different frequency components at the same time.
