Location and guidance using wide-beam radar imagery
Abstract
Basic ideas involved in a radar imagery location and guidance system are discussed. A data acquisition program to investigate the degree of uniqueness in return waveforms is described, and the results indicate generally small errors in the distance between a reference pulse and its most similar neighbor. A memory synthesis technique and computer routine, based on a scattering model that simulates many terrain characteristics that give structure to return radar pulses, are outlined, and algorithms for location and guidance correlations are derived. It is shown that location estimates made with these techniques are within about 100 meters of the correct location.
- Publication:
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EASCON 1974; Electronics and Aerospace Systems Convention
- Pub Date:
- 1974
- Bibcode:
- 1974easc.conf..229C
- Keywords:
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- Guidance Sensors;
- Position (Location);
- Pulse Radar;
- Radar Beams;
- Radar Imagery;
- Antenna Radiation Patterns;
- Computer Storage Devices;
- Data Acquisition;
- Imaging Techniques;
- Radar Antennas;
- Communications and Radar