All radar missions & instruments
Work across mission concepts, flight instruments, DEM products, antenna patterns, and radar parameter sets without rebuilding the workflow for each case.
Radar simulation and visualisation
Brabants Radars Universal Simulator
BRUS is a technical simulation environment for planetary and terrestrial radar sounders aimed at engineers, researchers, and graduate students who need to generate, inspect, and analyse large amounts of radar data.
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Designed For Complete Radar Simulation Workflows
All main simulation methods
Use real-valued backscattering functions and Kirchhoff facet methods within the same environment, so early studies and higher-fidelity runs stay in the same workflow.
Seamless PDS integration
Import PDS data, labels, auxiliary files, trajectories, and instrument metadata, then let BRUS auto-set the parameters needed to run comparable simulations.
Highly-optimised routines
Computation-heavy scattering functions have been efficiently written so as to be up to 80 times faster than comparable Python or MATLAB implementations.
Simulation methods
Choose the fidelity level that matches the question
BRUS brings several families of widely-used formulations into a unified architecture. That matters when a study moves from fast feasibility checks to detailed comparisons against processed radargrams.
Included method families
- Surface-only (clutter) and multilayer (subsurface).
- Real-valued backscattered power (incoherent) and complex-value vectorial field (Kirchoff).
- Linear phase approximation over square facets, triangular facets, rough facets, and more.
- Physicality enhancements such as Doppler shift and full-bandwidth scattering.
Universal clutter simulator
Clutter simulations for any PDS radar product
Load data
Start from PDS data files themselves rather than manually reconstructing the archive context.
BRUS detects context
BRUS automatically identifies the instrument, signal, target, compatible DEM, and trajectory.
Run and inspect
Side-by-side view of simulated and real product, along with contextual scientific analysis tools.
Built for research ergonomics
- Supports most DEM formats and includes tools to generate synthetic random DEMs.
- All planetary radar sounders (SHARAD, etc.) come pre-loaded. A tool is available for creating new instruments.
- Supports heterogeneous dielectric constant across the DEM.
- Pre-run physicality checks.
- Integrated radargram viewer also works for "standalone" viewing of any radar data.
- Thematic tools for DEM and radar signal analysis.
- Intuitive file management for large and complex systems of simulations.
Engineering use
A package for viewing, analysing, and simulating
BRUS takes advantage of a decade of experience in the field of radar sounder data acquisition and simulation, and was designed to be as practical as possible for someone working in that field. The interface and file management system is intuitive, its viewer is specifically taylored for visualisation of radar data, and its core simulation routines were optimised to be extremely fast. Drag-and-drop a PDS file or BRUS simulation into the central window to view the product; drag-and-drop a DEM to analyse its Allan curve; and many more.
Availability
Demo and full licencing options
BRUS available in 1-year, multi-year, or lifetime licences. A live demonstration of all its features can be organised online or at your premises. Click on button on the right to request an offer.