Performance of Coast Guard medium range surveillance (MRS) aircraft radars in search and rescue (SAR) missions

Author

Robe, R.Q. ; Paskausky, D.F. ; Hover, G.L.

Author_Institution

US Coast Guard Res. & Dev. Center, Groton, CT, USA

fYear

1988

fDate

31 Oct-2 Nov 1988

Firstpage

1448

Abstract

During June 1987, the US Coast Guard conducted a series of tests to determine the ability of two airborne radar systems, mounted aboard a Coast Guard MRS aircraft (HU-25A), to detect small search-and-rescue type objects. The systems evaluated were the AN/APS-127 forward-looking airborne radar and the AN/APS-131 side-looking airborne radar. Realistic radar searches were conducted to collect data using unalerted sensor operators and standard search patterns. Analysis of the detection data confirmed that the probability of detecting these targets varied with significant wave height, search altitude, and target size as well as lateral range to the target

Keywords

aircraft instrumentation; data acquisition; radar applications; radar systems; aircraft radars; forward-looking airborne radar; radar searches; search altitude; search-and-rescue type objects; side-looking airborne radar; target detection probability; target size; wave height; Aerospace electronics; Airborne radar; Aircraft; Boats; Character generation; Object detection; Radar detection; Radar tracking; Research and development; Surveillance; System testing; Target tracking;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

OCEANS '88. A Partnership of Marine Interests. Proceedings

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OCEANS.1988.23733

Filename

23733