LATPET: A versatile computer program to analyse the performance of low angle tracker algorithms in a disturbed environment
Abstract
The Low Angle Tracker Performance Evaluation Tool (LATPET) is a computer program with which the track accuracy of array radars can be investigated. The program considers a maritime scenario characterized by the presence of multipath reflections. Several techniques used to estimate the target height are implemented within LATPET: maximum likelihood model fitting and the spectral methods DFT and MUSIC. Environmental factors that bring about height estimate distortion are discussed. LATPETS's features and capabilities as well as some results of simulations are presented.
- Publication:
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Final Report Physics and Electronics Lab. TNO
- Pub Date:
- December 1990
- Bibcode:
- 1990pel..reptR....T
- Keywords:
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- Algorithms;
- Computer Programs;
- Computer Systems Performance;
- Performance Tests;
- Signal Reflection;
- Tracking Radar;
- Environment Effects;
- Evaluation;
- Marine Environments;
- Maximum Likelihood Estimates;
- Navigation Instruments;
- Radar Absorbers;
- Communications and Radar