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Introduction

FERS is the Flexible, Extensible Radar and Sonar Simulator. It aims to simulate the behaviour of next generation radar and sonar systems. FERS has been under active development since March 2006, and is neither feature complete nor fully tested.

FERS currently supports

Continuous Wave and Pulsed Radars
Multistatic and Monostatic Radars
Networked Radars

FERS is under development as part of an ongoing project at the Radar Remote Sensing Group, part of the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Cape Town.

What FERS Does

FERS takes an XML description of a scene, with one or more transmitters, one or more receivers and zero or more targets. Using the parameters (such as sample rate, carrier frequency, etc) defined in the XML script, FERS generates the waveform that the receivers will see.

FERS works with any arbitrary number of receivers and transmitters (monostatic and multistatic), works with continuous wave and pulsed radar systems, and can simulate a radar using any pulse shape. The simulator currently simulates the amplitude, phase, Doppler and noise effects of a radar system. Simulation of other channel effects (such as multipath, fading, scattering, etc) is currently being considered. For more information, see HERE.

Current Git Projects

FERS - https://github.com/stpaine/FERS
FERS GUI - https://github.com/stpaine/FERS_GUI

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Installing FERS

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Please use git to log issues and update documentation if you can. The more help we can get to make this more user friendly, the better off we will be for it.