• DocumentCode
    1411188
  • Title

    Optimisation of a surveillance radar

  • Author

    Whitfield, G.R.

  • Author_Institution
    Royal Radar Establishment, Malvern, UK
  • Volume
    113
  • Issue
    8
  • fYear
    1966
  • fDate
    8/1/1966 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1277
  • Lastpage
    1280
  • Abstract
    The paper discusses the optimisation of a surveillance radar by separating the search and tracking functions, and controlling the operation of the radar by the tracking computer. It is shown that in a typical case an improvement of 8 dB in search performance is available.
  • Keywords
    automatic control applications; computer applications; radar systems; radio and radar;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electrical Engineers, Proceedings of the Institution of
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0020-3270
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/piee.1966.0215
  • Filename
    5247598