Optimizing the decision to track in an automatic radar processor.
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Authors
Henn, Howard R.
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Cotton, Mitchell L.
Millen, Robert L.
Date of Issue
1961
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1961
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Monterey, California: U.S. Naval Postgraduate School
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en_US
Abstract
Computers and radars working together represent an emerging class of fully-automatic, high data rate radar systems. To maintain the system data rate, only a single illumination of each element of a surveillance volume is accomplished per scan in some cases. Suspected target volume are subjected to additional illuminations for verification and acquisition into track. The basic signal detection theory is reviewed and several verification techniques are presented. It is shown that, in these systems, the decision function can be optimized. For the representative examples considered, the variable threshold scheme minimizes required average power and false alarm rate in a fixed data rate system.
The writer wishes to express his appreciation for the assistance and encouragement given him by Professor Mitchell Cotton of the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School and Messrs. S. Grossfield and R.H. Kramp of the Ground Systems Group, Hughes Aircraft Corporation, Fullerton, California in this investigation.
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Electronics
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Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
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