Teknologi for bruk av kortholdsradar på droner

Offentlig prosjektsammendrag

The project will develop and validate key technologies for an airborne UAV-mounted ultra-wideband radar platform, enabling high-resolution imaging of surface and subsurface structures. The goal is to advance antenna design, high-precision positioning and noise reduction tailored to UAV operation, and advanced data processing using adaptive imaging and polarimetric synthetic aperture radar imaging. These developments will provide new capabilities beyond current UAV sensing solutions, which are limited by bandwidth, positioning accuracy, and susceptibility to noise and clutter. While humanitarian applications such as landmine detection are possible, the technology is equally relevant for infrastructure inspection, agriculture, environmental monitoring, and resource exploration. The project will follow a systematic R&D approach with simulation, lab validation, UAV integration, and field testing to generate new knowledge and prototypes forming the basis for future commercial products.