Plot extractor and data processing equipment for a mobile high resolution 3D pencil-beam radar
Abstract
The principle of sequential 3D scanning of the airspace by means of a pencil-beam antenna pattern, for reasons of complexity, is particularly suited for a highly mobile 3D air surveillance radar of high resolution. Advanced radar concepts of this type are using antennas with simultaneous electronic and mechanical beam scanning. For plot extraction, a procedure specially tailored to pencil-beam-scanning and having the following basic features is used: (1) signal amplitude evaluation, (2) target detection within the elevation scan (sliding window), and (3) center azimuth determination by means of an associative processor.
- Publication:
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In AGARD New Devices
- Pub Date:
- February 1977
- Bibcode:
- 1977ndts.agar.....E
- Keywords:
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- Data Processing Equipment;
- Pencil Beams;
- Plotters;
- Radar Scanning;
- Three Dimensional Motion;
- Airborne Surveillance Radar;
- Antenna Radiation Patterns;
- High Resolution;
- Radar Beams;
- Communications and Radar