Estimation of potential characteristics of onboard radar for ice surface monitoring

In this paper the potential characteristics of an airborne radar (AR) of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that monitors the ice situation along the Arctic traffic route are looked. Such radars provide operational, round-the-clock and all-weather monitoring of ice conditions for searching for divorces and threatening icebergs, and as a result, it increases the safety of navigating ships and oil platforms exploitation in the northern regions of the world's oceans. The possibilities of operation of the radar in the mode of measuring the height of the ice surface relief are analyzed. The potential characteristics of the radar with the interferometric method of measuring the relief height are estimated.