Cambridge Pixel is supplying Plextek with radar tracking technology for its Blighter range of ground surveillance radars.
Plextek's Blighter development team in Essex needed a software based radar target tracker that could provide the operator with target track ID, heading and speed.
"We opted for Cambridge Pixel's tracking technology because it is a mature product that had all the capabilities we required at a commercial rather than defence market price said Plextek's director of security products Mark Radford. "They have been a great partner: technically competent and highly responsive."
Blighter radars are solid-state, all-weather scanner that can operate over land and water to detect small moving targets such as people, kayaks or low-flying objects.
They are designed for mobile and fixed area, border and perimeter surveillance applications.
With the tracking software, detections are correlated across multiple scans to create tracks that describe the position and dynamics of targets of interest.
Tracking behaviour may be defined using configuration files with the provision for different track processing behaviour in different geographical areas of the radar's coverage.
Multiple hypotheses are employed in its data interpretation enhanced robustness.
"We have used Cambridge Pixel's technology as part of a surveillance project to detect and track illegal immigrants trying to enter the USA across the hills on the Mexican Border," said Nick Booth, Blighter sales and marketing manager at Plextek. "Operators are able to see the path travelled by intruders and at the same time filter out unwanted radar detections from wildlife and wind-blown vegetation so the targets presented are nearly always genuine targets and not distracting false alarms," he claimed.