New practical method for measurement error determination in radar systems under real traffic conditions

A new practical approach is presented to aid the evaluation of radar systems. Plots from a data extractor are associated in tracks. Each track is processed through an interpolation filter to achieve a reasonable initialisation of the manoeuvre detector. The tracking filter (alpha-beta) is not used to estimate the target state, but to estimate the measurement errors. The advantages of this new implementation are the simplicity, robustness and ease of testing because of the use of appropriately connected well known tracking algorithms. Finally, some results are introduced