Track management technique for electronically scanned radars

George C. Brown; W. Dale Blair; Daniel A. Diaz

doi:10.1117/12.392008

13 July 2000 Track management technique for electronically scanned radars

George C. Brown, W. Dale Blair, Daniel A. Diaz

Proceedings Volume 4048, Signal and Data Processing of Small Targets 2000; (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.392008
Event: AeroSense 2000, 2000, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

A new method of track management for a phased array radar is proposed to simplify the data association and improve the allocation of radar resources. The tracks are organized into Association Groups and Dwell Groups. Association Groups are used for course gating when associating new measurement data with existing tracks, while Dwell Groups are used to efficiently schedule the next dwell on closely-spaced targets. By considering only closely-spaced tracks in the same Association Group, a form of coarse gating is inherently done to cull candidate tracks that are unlikely to associate with a measurement from a dwell to illuminate all of its members. A Dwell Group contains tracks that are spaced sufficiently to allow one dwell to illuminate all of its members. Dwell groups lay the foundation for more systematic approaches to optimal allocation of the radar resources. Simulation results are presented to illustrate the new technique.

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George C. Brown, W. Dale Blair, and Daniel A. Diaz "Track management technique for electronically scanned radars", Proc. SPIE 4048, Signal and Data Processing of Small Targets 2000, (13 July 2000); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.392008

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