A review of applications of artificial intelligence techniques to naval ESM signal processing

The Admiralty Research Establishment (ARE) is supporting research into ESM (electronic support measures) digital signal processing techniques to provide the functions of automatic detection, surveillance and identification of radar emitters for application in future naval ESM systems. The use of artificial intelligence techniques is believed to be the solution to current ESM signal processing problems. Initial ARE work has confirmed this belief and more extensive projects are now being pursued. The value of this software work to the development of operational ESM system is, however, highly dependent on the success of parallel research work to implement such software on real time hardware.<
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