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ACCIPITER® RADAR SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS

Accipiter Radar Technologies Inc. (Accipiter) is a subsidiary of Sicom Systems Ltd. Accipiter is a world leader in the development, sale and support of affordable, high-performance radar target information systems marketed under the Accipiter® brand. Accipiter has pioneered the development of affordable radar networks and information systems that provide wide-area situational awareness in a variety of homeland security and aviation safety applications. Accipiter, through its internationally respected team of radar engineers and scientists, will continue to introduce innovations that will lead the market in addressing our customer's evolving requirements. Our customers include major corporations and governments in Canada, the United States, and off-shore.

Accipiter® Avian Radar

The Accipiter®AR product line provides affordable, high-performance, avian radar target information solutions that address natural resource management (NRM) and bird aircraft strike hazard (BASH) management applications. Accipiter®AR is network-enabled to support regional, national and continental sensor integration for wide-area advisory systems.

Bird-aircraft strikes cost in excess of one billion dollars annually in damage to aircraft and interruptions of air operations worldwide, not to mention the potential for loss of life. The Accipiter®AR line provides sophisticated tools to assist wildlife biologists and air operations personnel, including real-time geo-referenced target displays, real-time automated alerts, and historical information that characterize bird movements and abundance.

Accipiter Radar leaders, innovators and educators in the field of affordable radar networks for flight safety and environmental protection, are pleased to introduce the latest evolution in the world's only 360° 3D Accipiter® Avian Radar. Our new (patent pending) multi-beam antenna system marks exciting progress in improved aviation safety.

  Accipiter® Security Radar

The Accipiter®SR product line provides affordable, high-performance radar target information solutions for homeland security applications including border enforcement, interdiction, critical infrastructure protection, harbor and port security, coastal surveillance and search and rescue. Accipiter®SR provides all weather, day-night, situational awareness with automated, advance warning of threats in accordance with user-defined business rules. It is network-enabled to facilitate continuous, wide-area radar surveillance, remote target information distribution and remote operation.

Accipiter®SR can be deployed on a variety of platforms to meet mission requirements including trailers, trucks, towers, and rooftops. In addition, Accipiter®SR can be configured as a payload for airborne platforms such as aerostats or UAVs. Accipiter®SR's information system supports integration and fusion of multiple radars and other sensors such as cameras and automatic identification systems (AIS).

RECENT ACCIPITER® INSTALLATIONS

Accipiter Radar and TCOM LP have introduced a new, affordable, wide-area, maritime surveillance radar system that combines the persistence, maturity and superiority of the proven TCOM 32M class of Aerostat's with the light-weight, high-performance Accipiter® Security Radar.
Flying at up to 3,000', the Accipiter® radar payload provides all-weather, day-night, situational awareness of vessels out to 125 km (75 mi).

 

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Radar target information available in the ground station below supports local or remote operation. It can be integrated with other Aerostat and land-based sensors to provide a wide-area surveillance network covering coastlines and water borders. With the addition of an integrated camera and communications suite, the 32M Accipiter® Aerostat becomes a complete command and control system to help address coastal, Arctic and border surveillance applications.

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Accipiter Radar has delivered numerous avian radar systems to the FAA for use at civil airports including Seattle-Tacoma International, Chicago O'Hare, and JFK. These systems include rooftop and ground-based avian radars. Accipiter's gold standard tracking algorithms in all Accipiter ® radars produce high quality bird tracks capable of distinguishing individual and flocking bird movements for birds as small as starlings, as can be seen in this photo. Click photo to view larger version. Accipiter® radars are ideal for both the

 

wildlife management mode of operation and the sense-and-avoid mode of operation, as a result of its patented multi-mission, target information system architecture. It's all about the right picture, to the right person, in real-time.

 

 

 




UPCOMING EVENTS:

Border Management North
July 26-28, 2010
Doubletree Hotel, Detroit, MI

IEEE Technologies for
Homeland Security Conference
November 8-10, 2010
Waltham-Boston, MA

AVIAN & SECURITY NEWS

 Sea-Tac Helps Pioneer Bird Radar


A concise article outlining the benefits of avian radar including real-time awareness of bird activity and prediction of flight patterns which ultimately leads to helping reduce bird strikes.


Striking Back with Avian Radar


This well presented article concisely reviews the threat of bird strikes to safe aviation and the tremendous progress avian radar has made to mitigate the risk.

FAA Fact Sheet
January 14, 2010
FAA Wildlife Hazard Mitigation Program.


Journal of Air Traffic Control - Summer 2009 - Reducing Bird Strikes - New Radar Networks Can Help Make Skies Safer.
From the respected Journal of Air Traffic Control, this is an excellent article providing a comprehensive overview of bird strike prevention and how avian radar technology mitigates this growing challenge at airports. It includes the current operational status of avian radar, an explanation of X versus S band antenna coverage and a glimpse at the future of avian radar networks.

Journal ofOcean Technology, Maritime & Port Security - June 2009 - Affordable multi-mission radar surveillance networks for marine and port security.
This article explores Accipiter® security networks, including affordable ground-based, integrated, digital marine radars providing continuous situational awareness. Radar surveillance of critical infrastructure sites, often near waterways or marine exclusion zones, provides authorities with the information needed to prevent, respond to and control security threats.


ABC World News Tonight - 23 February 2009 - Radar Could Prevent Avian Attacks.
ABC News reporter, Neal Karlinsky, and ABC aviation consultant, John Nance, look at how the danger of birds striking aircraft, which is being attributed to the downing of US Airways Flight 1549 might be avoided by the use of Avian Radars. Steve Osmek, at Sea-Tac Airport, demonstrates these Accipiter® Radars.