Air Sanitization Using AESA Radar
David K. Faulk, Thomas L. Frey · AIAA Scitech 2020 Forum · 2020
This paper proposes a system of modeling an air volume as a collection of cells and computing the cumulative probability of detection at each cell. The paper considers how a cell increases in detection confidence with multiple beams as well as how that confidence degrades over time and in the adjacent presence of other sanitized cells. The paper will make the argument that a sanitized area of sufficient confidence can only degrade at the boundary edge and therefore it is only that area boundary that requires subsequent beam attention. When beams are no longer spent sweeping an area as fast as possible, the result is a sensor that can be used for other activities (e.g. tracking threats, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) mapping) or in reduced detectability.