Radar System Design for Track-While-Scan

Abstract

The problem of selecting search radar system parameters to achieve desired track-while-scan performance is investigated at a fundamental theoretical level. The vehicle being tracked is modeled as an object traveling at a random velocity along a random highway. The radar is modeled as a noisy sampler which occassionally drops samples. The best achievable tracking performance in a least-squares error sense of this vehicle/sampler combination is analyzed in general and for a variety of specific situations. Copyright 1979 by The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.