Development and Results for a New Software Defined Radar: The SLIMSDR

ARTEMIS, Inc. began flight testing their newest radar system, called the SlimSDR (for Slim, Software Defined Radar) in September 2019. The SlimSDR is a compact radar system and is successor to the ARTEMIS SlimSAR, with additional capabilities and flexibility. As a software-defined radar, the SlimSDR is modular, multi-frequency, and applicable to multiple applications. This paper discusses the design and development of the SlimSDR and shows initial results from the first flight tests of the system.