DEMR - Technical resources

The department is supported by a unique set of large-scale test and measurement facilities.

Ground-based radars

• NOSTRADAMUS skywave and ROS surface-wave HF radar demonstrators
• HYCAM ground-based radars (radar test and signature measurement platform) and MEDYCIS (scintillating target measurements)
• PRISME ground-based radar (signature measurements and ISAR bistatic satellite imaging)
• ABISS bistatic radar (space surveillance)

Airborne radar

• SETHI airborne radar (associated with its SAR PAMELA processing workshop)
• BUSARD light airborne platform for compact payloads
• SAR-Light multi-frequency radar sensor for light UAVs

Radar concepts

• Passive radar equipment
• Non-conventional radar measurement equipment (detection through walls, in the ground or in vegetation)

Test chambers

• Anechoic chambers for stealth - CAMERA2, BABI
• Antenna anechoic chamber
• Semi-anechoic EMC chamber
• Mode-stirring reverberation chambers

EM propagation

• Modular platform for broadband measurements of the mobile propagation channel, PROMOLAB
• High-frequency tropospheric propagation channel measurement stations

Materials

• Material characterization benches BACCARAT, ROCAMAT

EM field visualization

• EMIR, EMVI (IR thermorgraphy and visible optical fluorescence) facilities

Power electronics

• TROPHEA modular test bench for medium-power electrical architectures, combined with a carbon composite fuselage section and 8 x 10 kW sources

DEMR also has a wide range of proprietary software, based on original methods and designed for EM modeling and numerical simulation. 

Electromagnetism

• MAXWELL 3D/Py-Maxwell3D: 3D Maxwell code in the frequency domain
• ALICE/Maxwell-TD: 3D Maxwell code in the time domain
• FACTOPO: software package dedicated to multi-domain electromagnetic calculations in the frequency domain
• SE-RAY-EM/FERMAT: electromagnetic ray-tracing code, developed by OKTAL-SE in partnership with DEMR

Radar scene

• EMPRISE: radar simulation software platform developed as part of the environmental reference role for electromagnetism

EM signatures

• PLATON: software for processing radar signature measurements

Radomes, antennas

• CADOM: software used to design radome walls
• FAST-TA-DESIGNER: fast simulator for transmit array antennas

EMC

• CRIPTE software suite: code for calculating electromagnetic interactions on multi-conductor cable networks
• PWBN : Power Balance Network code for calculating electromagnetic environments in electrically large systems

SAR

• PamelaX11: synthesis algorithm for SAR image generation
• Pymela: visualization and analysis of SAR images

EM propagation

• EPEE: 2D calculation code for vertical mapping of the electromagnetic field at low altitude and propagated over long distances using the parabolic equation
• STIPEE: code for the calculation of the electromagnetic field in large-scale systems
• SISTAR-V3: software for simulating the effects of the troposphere on RF wave propagation.
• RFO-GSO channel: modeling library for the RFO-GSO (Radio Frequency Optical - Ground Station Optimization) channel
• APART: software for simulating the aeronautical channel
• ITU-R recommendation model library for Earth-space propagation: models developed by DEMR and integrated into the ITU-R for RF simulation.

AI

• IGAN: generative and discriminative deep learning architecture