/ Solutions that target the problem /
/ Profile /
Founded in 2007, Helios Remote Sensing Systems, Inc. is headquartered in Rome, NY at the Griffiss Business and Technology Park. The Helios team includes a number of recognized radar, electronic warfare, artificial intelligence and machine learning, image analysis, software development, and manufacturing experts. Since its establishment, Helios has secured numerous highly competitive prime contracts from various Government agencies, research labs, and commercial entities.
/ Advanced Radar and RF Technology, System Analysis, Design & Development /
Major radar & RF systems focus areas include:
- Advanced radar architectures: Monostatic, bistatic & multistatic
- Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) and fighter radar
- Ultra-Wideband (UWB) Sense-Through-The-Wall (STTW) radar
- Multiple Input, Multiple Output (MIMO) radar systems
- Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar (ISAR) imaging
- Soldier-borne & man-portable radar systems
- Atmospheric & weather radar systems
- Over-The-Horizon Radar (OTHR) systems
- Foliage penetration (FOPEN) radar
- Passive radar applications
- Dismount detection, discrimination, & classification
- Radar tomographic imaging
- Advanced clutter mitigation and adaptive interference suppression
- Diverse waveform transmit and receive processing
/ Electronic Support & Electronic Intelligence /
Electronic Support:
- ESM system architectures and processing
- Digital receiver design, development, and testing
- Signal detection, parameter measurement, feature extraction, pulse clustering, de-interleaving, mode detection, and emitter identification
- LPI signal detection
- Automatic modulation classification
- Interference mitigation
- Time Difference of Arrival (TDOA) / Frequency Difference of Arrival (FDOA) Geolocation
Electronic Intelligence (ELINT):
- System architectures design for processing both radar and communications signals: Design, development, and integration of wide-bandwidth digital receivers for Electronic Support Measures (ESM) systems.
- Development of advanced processing algorithms
- Signal detection in the presence of interference
- Parameter measurement and Specific Feature Extraction
- Radar pulse clustering, de-interleaving, and classification
- Emitter mode detection and identification.
- Development of wideband signal processing algorithms
- Detection of Low-Probability of Intercept (LPI) signals
- Automated modulation detection and classification
- Geo-location of signals using TDOA/FDOA techniques.
/ Advanced Imagery Exploitation Technology /
Relevant advanced imagery exploitation expertise includes:
- Sensor assessments: coverage, predicted performance, single and multi-sensor
- Pre-processing: radiometric calibration, registration, atmospheric correction
- Enhancement: contrast, pan-sharpening, derivative bands, leveraging polarimetric SAR
- Target feature extraction: algorithm development and assessment, multi-level approaches, biological-inspired algorithms (e.g., neural networks, genetic algorithms), anomaly detection, robust performance
- Geospatial reasoning: object attribute correlation, multiple discriminants for increased confidence
- Implementation: workflow, automation, distributed processing
/ RF and Digital Signal Processing Design & Development /
Major RF and digital signal processing technologies include:
- Artificial intelligence and machine learning
- Direct RF to digital sampling
- Detection enhancement: AMTI / GMTI / SMTI / MIMO...
- Clutter suppression: Space-Time Adaptive Processing (STAP), ADPCA, Adaptive MTI...
- Electromagnetic Interference Suppression
- Knowledge-Aided radar signal processing
- Non-linear signal analysis
- Biologically-inspired detection and classification algorithms
- Target discrimination and classification
- Wavelet processing
- Multi-feature extraction & correlation
/ Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning /
Artificial intelligence / machine learning technologies include:
- De-interleaving, detection, and classification of agile emitters
- Hybrid machine learning for passive 3-D localization
- Active detection and classification of radar signals as human, animal, adult, child, unarmed, armed, asleep, awake.
- Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar (ISAR)
- Biological-inspired image processing algorithms
/ Products /
Helios Remote Sensing Systems has developed and is producing the following products.
Small portable radar systems
- MARSManeuver Assurance Radar SystemVariants: Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV), Helmet Mounted Radar (HMR)
- HMMR X3Counter-UxS Radar
- STTWSense-Thru-The-Wall Radar
- SODStructure Occupancy DetectorVariants: Unmanned Aerial System (UAS), Tripod
Atmospheric monitoring radars
- MARBLEMarine Atmospheric Radar for Boundary Layer Estimation
- HMMR X2Atmospheric Monitoring and Counter-UAS Radar
Electronic warfare detection and de-interleaving
- Cognitive Software Algorithms Techniques
Intelligence Community products
- AWAREWide Area Recognition Engine