ATCR-33S NG ELECTRONICS DIVISION

NEW GENERATION S-BAND The receiving section is fully redundant, with the
two separate and independent receiving channels
SOLID STATE PRIMARY included within a single cabinet, allowing to adapt
SURVEILLANCE RADAR the equipment ot the most critical installation
requirements.
ATCR-33S NG provides superior air traffic surveillance
in departure/arrival phases, up to extended Terminal The processing is controlled on a cell-by-cell basis,
Management Area. ATCR-33S NG is an S-band system by a very sophisticated geographical mapping system.
part of the company family of primary radars. An integrated weather channel is included, providing
six levels of weather information according to the U.S.
THE SOLUTION National Weather Service recommendations.
Realised to comply with international standards for
Primary Surveillance Radar (PSR) systems and to The transmitter is modular and fault tolerant, with 8
guarantee a high degree of maintainability, power modules included in a single cabinet. The RF
the ATCR-33S NG system meets the requirements issued power stage employs the latest Gallium Nitride (GaN)
by ICAO and EUROCONTROL in terms of functional and transistor technology, allowing to increase at the same
performance characteristics. time transmitted power, efficiency and reliability.

It provides enhanced processing capabilities and Each module can be removed on line during operation
extended performance monitoring in order to support and is provided with a separate power supply for
24 hour operations. improved maintenability.
Monitor and control activities can be performed from
local or remote stations with userfriendly operator’s The ATCR-33S NG system interfaces with the
interface. S-Band antenna group, which includes the G-33
S-Band antenna, a well proven reflector antenna
High operational flexibility and system availability are system, extensively used in civil and military air
also guaranteed through cutting edge technological traffic applications all over the world and the S-Band
choices. automatic antenna base with duplicated motors and
The ATCR-33S NG system employs a wide range of azimuth encoders.
processing techniques, which automatically optimise
the operational performance under the most severe
environmental conditions.
SYSTEM FEATURES
Enhanced Capabilities High Operation Flexibility

› Digital pulse compression with enhanced › Operation mode in fixed frequency or frequency
peak-to-sidelobe ratio for high radar sensitivity and diversity;
improved range resolution; › Emission control function to reduce or disable RF
› Fully coherent Adaptive Moving Target Detection radiation on given azimuth sectors;
(A-MTD) using from 6 to 12 Doppler filters; › Automatic antenna beam switching (between Low
› Adaptive selection among four MTD filter sets and High beams) for ground clutter suppression;
according to ground clutter intensity; › Map Programmable and Auto-Adaptive STC, against
› Extensive mapping techniques employed to high level clutter and saturating signals;
adaptively maintain CFAR in presence of natural and › Linear/circular polarization, for optimum target
artificial (e.g. Windfarm areas) clutter with different detection in all weather conditions;
time and spatial characteristics; › Anomalous propagation rejection, with automatic
› High resolution maps updated separately for each polarization selection capabiliy;
MTD filter, to provide super-clutter visibility and › Asynchronous Interference Blanking (AIB);
tangential target detection; › Raw video streaming on LAN;
› New Gallium Nitride (GaN) transistor technology for › In case of special operations, a transportable
improved reliability and transmission characteristics. configuration of the ATCR-33S NG is also available;
› Availability of optional 4G/WiMax filtering kit.

TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION
› Frequency band From 2700 to 2900 MHz; › Conversion type A/D Conversion @ IF level;
› Maximum range 60/80/100 NM; › Signal Processor Adapting Moving Target
Detector (A-MTD)
› Antenna rotation rate 15/12/10 rpm;
including up to 2 FIR filters;
› Transmitter architecture Modular, with fail soft
› Radar Processor Platform
COTS architecture based on
capability at module and
last generation processors
transisto level:
with use of standard
8 modules (Dual Power interfaces;
output) > 17 KW;
16 modules (Dual Power › Use of C language algorithms running on LINUX OS;
output) > 32 KW; › Large plot processing capability;

› Transmitted waveforms Short Pulses: 1 /10 us; › LAN connections 3 for each channel;
Long Pulses: 10/100/150 us; › RMA High reliability with a critical
MTBF;
MTBF > 40.000 hours;
› Frequency management Burst to burst frequency
MTTR < 20 minutes;
diversity with capability
› Avaliability Better than 99,999 %;
of frequency selection over
the S - Band;
› Cooling Air Cooling;

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