Approach to multifunction radar tracker design
José Ramón Casar Corredera, David Harvey · 1992
Multifunction radar (MFR) single-target tracking is the set of operations aiming towards (i) the calculation of an improved estimate of the target's actual position and dynamics and (ii) the production of an estimate of the target's future position (prediction), where the beam will be pointed and a range gate opened. A new approach to optimally select both the energy of the tracking waveforms and the track sampling rates which jointly minimize occupancy and satisfy angular accuracy requirements for a MFR is presented. The design process is illustrated for a particular case-study system. The results suggest that the radar's energy should be managed as a function of target's size and range so as to obtain a SNR as close as possible to its optimal value.