POLARIS Innovation Journal issue 51 provides a comprehensive overview of the latest technologies that can improve the performance of electromagnetic, optical, and infrared sensors. A special focus highlights the combination of innovative materials and sophisticated camouflage techniques, in order to make observation and surveillance systems increasingly “invisible” to enemy detection.
Other insights are dedicated to AESA (Active Electronically Scanned Array) antennas and their innovative testing methods, to customised microwave filter design activities, to stealth technologies that reduce aircraft visibility with nanostructured coatings for adaptive thermal camouflage and with radar-absorbent materials (RAM), and to the infrastructure for monitoring experimental helicopter flights, in real time and in safety.
Finally, the topic of sensor integration on board platforms is illustrated, through the use of Computational Electromagnetic Modeling (CEM), which allows the design of solutions to optimise the compatibility of the sensors themselves and minimise interference between electromagnetic fields, physical objects and the surrounding environment.