SharpEye SBS-900
Coherent Shore-based Sensor systemThe challenge
Owners and operators of shore-based facilities, assets and installations require reliable systems to help achieve multiple objectives including maritime security, safe navigation and environmental protection.
These shore-based sensor systems make use of surveillance radar to promote efficiency, safety and security throughout coastal and littoral zones.
In fact, the need for sensor systems is increasing in proportion to the current growth in naval traffic and congestion as well as environmental and military threats. These radar sensors can help shore-based stakeholders in their efforts to prevent collisions at sea, detect environmental offences such as dumping at sea and, perhaps most importantly, monitor, track and even interdict suspicious and unauthorised vessels and activities detected in the waters around them.
Our solution
Shore-based stakeholders face a wide range of environmental, safety and security challenges that can be addressed with the use of radar sensor-based monitoring, surveillance and tracking equipment.
HENSOLDT´s shore-based radar solutions are designed to meet the demanding operational requirements of port, harbour and river traffic operators, as well as the government agencies that protect coastal and littoral zones.
The SharpEye™ transceivers in the SBS-900 system are housed in a separate, dedicated enclosure for outdoor installation near the antenna turning unit and do not require an air-conditioned enclosure. This significantly reduces system integration and infrastructure costs.
These highly reliable systems provide system integrators with a complete radar sensor package to that meets the requirements of a coastal surveillance or a Vessel Traffic Service (VTS) system as defined in the IALA guidelines.
Features and benefits
Features
- X -Band SharpEyeTM transceiver (mast-mounted)
- Low output power
- Continuous health monitor
- Software-configured
- Open architecture
- Blanking sector
- Local or remote control
- Self-contained upmast solution
- Industry standard digital open architecture
- Low-maintenance
- Easy to integrate with the capability to permit future increments
- Fully coherent SharpEye™ transceivers augment capability and situational awareness through digital pulse compression and pulse Doppler processing
- Deployable with various antennas and is available in X-Band
- Frequency diversity for enhanced clutter processing and small-target detection
Benefits
- High reliability, availability and MTBF
- Unsusceptible to clutter
- The SBS-900-3 dual redundant configuration provides switchover from one transceiver to the pre-powered second transceiver in approximately 1 second in the event of a failure
- Advance clutter processing and small-target detection
- Easy to install with reduced upmast weight and no air conditioning
- Easy to integrate with the capability to permit future increments
- Full BITE capability
- Flexible to meet various customer requirements
- Low cost of ownership and through-life costs
