Coastal surveillance radar on a rocky seashore headland at dusk

Product 07 / Maritime domain awareness

Coastal Surveillance Radar System

A solid-state X-band coastal surveillance radar built for persistent maritime domain awareness along harbours, ports, offshore assets and extended coastlines. Doppler processing and adaptive sea-clutter rejection sustain detection of small, low-RCS craft in high sea states, while automatic track generation feeds directly into the Integrated C2 platform for EO/IR cueing and coordinated response.

Up to 50 km

Vessel detection

Wide-area

Continuous azimuth cover

500+ tracks

Simultaneous capacity

Key features

Solid-state X-band transceiver with pulse-compression waveforms for long-range, low-power operation.
Adaptive sea- and rain-clutter rejection sustaining small-target detection in high sea states.
Automatic detection and Track While Scan of small boats, fishing craft, dinghies, jet-skis and low-altitude aerial targets.
AIS correlation to separate cooperative traffic from non-cooperative or dark vessels.
Configurable maritime zones with automatic alerting on entry, loitering, anchoring or course deviation.
Automatic EO/IR slew-to-cue for visual identification of every generated track.
Networked multi-site chaining for gap-free coverage along extended coastlines, feeding one C2 picture.
Coastal, offshore-platform and shipborne mounting options with continuous health monitoring.

ADS integration sequence

01
Detect surface & low-air contacts
02
Track & correlate with AIS
03
Cue EO/IR and C2

Technical specifications

Radar type	Solid-state coastal surveillance radar, pulse compression
Frequency band	X-band
Detection range	Large vessel up to 50 km; small boat up to 12 km; swimmer/dinghy up to 4 km
Low-altitude air targets	Up to 15 km, configuration dependent
Range resolution	Better than 5 m in short-pulse mode
Tracking capacity	500+ simultaneous tracks
Clutter rejection	Adaptive sea and rain clutter processing with Doppler filtering
External data	AIS correlation; ADS-B optional
Interfaces	Ethernet / TCP-IP / UDP with C2 integration
Time synchronisation	GPS
Environmental protection	IP66 / IP67 marine-grade, salt-fog resistant
Mounting	Coastal tower / mast / offshore platform / shipborne

Imagery

System gallery

Tripod-mounted coastal radar at a headland site

Signal processing and power distribution

Field record

Case studies

Representative deployment scenarios for this subsystem. Site names are withheld; configurations reflect delivered and trialled arrangements.

Port protection

Non-cooperative approach to a harbour

A commercial port needed to distinguish routine AIS-reporting traffic from small craft approaching the restricted basin without transponders.

Radar tracks were correlated against AIS in real time, flagging dark contacts automatically and slewing EO/IR to each one for identification before it reached the inner zone.

Dark contacts

Auto-flagged

Slew-to-cue

EO/IR identification

500+

Tracks held

Extended coastline

Gap-free cover across a sector

A coastal sector spanning tens of kilometres could not be covered by a single site, and separate radars produced fragmented pictures.

Networked radar heads were chained into one fused C2 picture with continuous handover between sites, holding tracks across the full sector in sea state 4.

Multi-site

Networked cover

Sea state 4

Sustained detection

50 km

Per-site vessel range

Other subsystems

Integrated Command & Control (C2) System

RF Detection & Direction-Finding Subsystem

EO/IR Camera & Auto-Tracking Subsystem

RF Wideband Jammer / COMINT Jammer

GNSS Jammer / Spoofer

Fixed & Rotational AESA Radar Surveillance System