RADAR SYSTEM PERFORMANCE MODELING
CONTENTS CHAPTER INTRODUCTION THIS BOOK AND HOW TO USE IT CONCEPT OF RADAR OPERATION RADAR APPLICATIONS AND FUNCTIONS FUNCTIONAL MODELS CUSTOM RADAR FUNCTIONS PROBLEMS REFERENCES SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY CHAPTER RADAR CONFIGURATIONS RADAR BASING FREQUENCY BANDS ANTENNA TYPES WAVEFORM TYPES SIGNAL PROCESSING TECHNIQUES MONOSTATIC AND BISTATIC RADAR RADAR ANALYSIS PARAMETERS TRANSMITTER ANTENNAS PHASED-ARRAY ANTENNAS RECEIVER AND SIGNAL PROCESSOR TARGET RADAR CROSS SECTION RADAR WAVEFORMS WAVEFORM CHARACTERISTICS CW PULSES LINEAR FM PULSES PHASE-CODED WAVEFORMS PULSE-BURST WAVEFORMS MULTIPLE-TIME-AROUND RETURNS RADIAL-VELOCITY AMBIGUITIES THE RADAR EQUATION RADAR RANGE EQUATION PARAMETER DEFINITION IN THE RADAR EQUATION REFERENCE RANGE PULSE INTEGRATION MINIMUM RANGE CONSTRAINT VBA SOFTWARE FUNCTIONS FOR THE RADAR EQUATION FUNCTION SNR_DB FUNCTION RANGE_KM FUNCTION INTEGRATED_SNR_DB FUNCTION SP_SNR_DB RADAR DETECTION THE DETECTION PROCESS FALSE ALARMS DETECTION USING A SINGLE PULSE OR COHERENT DWELL DETECTION USING NONCOHERENT INTEGRATION CUMULATIVE DETECTION VBA SOFTWARE FUNCTIONS FOR RADAR DETECTION FUNCTION PFA_FACTOR FUNCTION FARATE_PER_S 6 7 3 FUNCTION PROBDET_FACTOR 6 7 4 FUNCTION SNR_SP_DB RADAR SEARCH MODES THE SEARCH EQUATION ROTATING SEARCH RADAR VOLUME SEARCH WITH PHASED-ARRAY RADAR CUED SEARCH HORIZON SEARCH WITH PHASED-ARRAY RADAR HORIZON SEARCH WITH DISH RADAR VBA SOFTWARE FUNCTIONS FOR RADAR SEARCH MODES FUNCTION SEARCHR_ROT1_KM FUNCTION SEARCHR_ROT2_KM FUNCTION SEARCHR_VOL1_KM FUNCTION SEARCHR_VOL2_KM FUNCTION SEARCHR_CUE1_KM FUNCTION SEARCHR_CUE2_KM FUNCTION SEARCHR_HOR1_KM FUNCTION SEARCHR_HOR2_KM FUNCTION SR_BOWTIE1_KM 7 8 10 FUNCTION SR_BOWTIE2_KM RADAR MEASUREMENT AND TRACKING RANGE MEASUREMENT ACCURACY ANGULAR MEASUREMENT ACCURACY VELOCITY MEASUREMENT ACCURACY MEASUREMENT OF TARGET FEATURES MULTIRADAR MEASUREMENTS MEASUREMENT SMOOTHING AND TRACKING RADAR TRACKING TECHNIQUES VBA SOFTWARE FUNCTIONS FOR RADAR MEASUREMENT AND TRACKING FUNCTION RANGEERROR_M FUNCTION ANGLEERROR_MR FUNCTION DOPVELERROR_MPS FUNCTION RADVELERROR_MPS FUNCTION CROSSVELERROR_MPS FUNCTION PREDICTERROR_KM ENVIRONMENT AND MITIGATION TECHNIQUES TERRAIN AND SEA-SURFACE EFFECTS PRECIPITATION EFFECTS TROPOSPHERE EFFECTS IONOSPHERE EFFECTS MITIGATION TECHNIQUES FUNCTION SCR_SURF_DB FUNCTION RAINLOCATTEN_DBPKM RAINPATHATTEN_DB FUNCTION SCR_RAIN_DB FUNCTION TROPOATTEN_DB FUNCTION TROPOEL_ERR_MR FUNCTION TROPOR_ERR_M FUNCTION IONOEL_ERR_MR FUNCTION IONOR_ERR_M RADAR COUNTERMEASURES AND COUNTER-COUNTERMEASURES RADAR COUNTERMEASURE SUMMARY MAINLOBE JAMMING SIDELOBE JAMMING VOLUME CHAFF DECOY DISCRIMINATION COUNTER-COUNTERMEASURES 10 7 1 FUNCTION DISCPROB_FACTOR FUNCTION ML_SJNR_DB FUNCTION ML_BTRANGE_KM FUNCTION SL_SJNR_DB FUNCTION SL_BTRANGE_KM FUNCTION SCR_CHAFF_DB AIRBORNE AND SPACE-BASED RADAR ISSUES CLUTTER CHARACTERISTICS PULSE-DOPPLER PROCESSING DISPLACED PHASE CENTER ARRAYS (DPCA) SPACE-TIME ADAPTIVE PROCESSING (STAP) SYNTHETIC-APERTURE RADAR (SAR) VBA SOFTWARE FUNCTIONS FOR AIRBORNE AND SBR 11 8 1 FUNCTION GRAZ_ANG_DEG 11 8 2 FUNCTION DEP_ANG_DEG FUNCTION MB_CLUTTER_V_MPS FUNCTION SAR_XR_RES_M RADAR PERFORMANCE MODELING TECHNIQUES AND EXAMPLES METHODOLOGY FALSE-ALARM PROBABILITY OPTIMIZATION CUMULATIVE DETECTION OVER LONG PERIODS CUED SEARCH USING A DISH RADAR COMPOSITE MEASUREMENT ERRORS DETECTION IN JAMMING, CHAFF, AND NOISE