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Windfarm Mitigation for UK Air Defence: successful projects
Projects awarded funding to develop innovative models to understand the effect of disparate technologies to reduce the impact of offshore windfarms on UK Air Defence.
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This Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) competition sought proposals for novel and innovative models to understand the effect of disparate technologies to reduce the impact of offshore windfarms on UK Air Defence.
The primary objective of this is to allow the comparison of disparate mitigation techniques, including those that are based on:
- improved radar tracking approaches, whether by the use of better discrimination algorithms to allow the windfarm clutter to be rejected or additional radars to improve tracking performance over the windfarm
- materials approaches, where the materials used to construct the turbine are altered to reduce the clutter observed by the radar
- alternative tracking approaches, where non-radar sensors are used to supplement the existing radar network over the windfarm
These 3 areas are not mutually exclusive and combinations of these are also in scope.
Published 24 April 2024