The physics we engineer.
Radar, lidar, and scanning answer the same question — what is out there? — using different parts of the spectrum. KAM Defense develops all three and the software that fuses them.
See through weather, dust, and dark.
Radar transmits radio energy and listens for the echo. Because radio waves pass through cloud and night, radar gives an operator a picture when optics fail. Our work centres on active electronically scanned arrays (AESA) — flat panels that steer the beam electronically, with no moving parts, tracking many targets at once.
- Detection of small, slow, low targets such as drones
- Doppler processing to read velocity and reject clutter
- Synthetic-aperture imaging for ground mapping
- Digital beamforming for simultaneous search and track
Resolve geometry to the centimetre.
Lidar fires laser pulses and times their return, building a dense 3D point cloud of everything in view. Where radar gives range and motion, lidar gives precise shape — the exact contour of terrain, structures, and obstacles. We develop both coherent long-range and solid-state short-range lidar for mapping and autonomous navigation.
- Centimetre-class 3D mapping of terrain and structures
- Navigation in GPS-denied environments
- Airborne bathymetry through shallow water
- Eye-safe wavelengths for operational use
Read material and what lies beneath.
Scanning sensors extend perception beyond range and shape into composition. Hyperspectral scanners split light into hundreds of bands to identify materials by their spectral fingerprint — defeating camouflage and concealment. Ground-penetrating scanning reaches below the surface to reveal voids, structures, and buried objects.
- Hyperspectral material identification across VNIR–SWIR
- Camouflage and concealment defeat
- Subsurface imaging of voids and buried structures
- Volumetric synthetic-aperture reconstruction
The picture is better than any one sensor.
Radar finds and tracks at range. Lidar fixes precise geometry. Scanning confirms identity. KAM's fusion layer combines all three into a single, time-aligned track picture — reducing false alarms and giving an operator one trustworthy view instead of three competing ones.
Radar cues the picture
Wide-area radar finds candidate targets and hands off precise cues to the optical sensors.
Lidar fixes the geometry
Cued lidar builds an exact 3D model of the contact for measurement and tracking.
Scanning identifies it
Spectral and subsurface scanning confirm what the contact is — and what it carries.
See how the domains combine.
We will walk your team through the phenomenology and where each sensor earns its place.