Development of Surveillance and Tracking Radar

Author

Vavriv, D. ; Volkov, V. ; Sosnytskiy, S. ; Shevchenko, A. ; Kozhyn, R. ; Kravtsov, A. ; Vasilevskiy, M. ; Zaikin, D.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Radio Astron., Nat. Acad. of Sci. of Ukraine, Kharkov

fYear

2006

fDate

Sept. 2006

Firstpage

26

Lastpage

31

Abstract

A high-resolution surveillance and tracking radar has been recently developed and tested at the Institute of Radio Astronomy. The radar is a monopulse, all-weather radar with mechanical beam steering. It works in a pulse mode, and a coherent FFT-based signal processing is utilized. The radar is equipped with a clutter suppression system and with a Kalman filtering scheme for trajectory calculation and extrapolation. The radar is suitable for long-range surveillance with a small volume-scanning time and for tracking of highly dynamic, low-sized targets. This paper describes the setup of this radar, its main components, and the signal processing technique used

Keywords

Kalman filters; beam steering; extrapolation; fast Fourier transforms; radar clutter; radar resolution; radar tracking; search radar; Kalman filtering scheme; clutter suppression system; coherent FFT; extrapolation; fast Fourier transform; high-resolution surveillance radar; mechanical beam steering; monopulse; signal processing; tracking radar; trajectory calculation; Beam steering; Extrapolation; Filtering; Kalman filters; Radar clutter; Radar signal processing; Radar tracking; Radio astronomy; Surveillance; Testing; Surveillance and tracking radar; clutter suppression; low-sized targets; monopulse radar;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Ultrawideband and Ultrashort Impulse Signals, The Third International Conference

Conference_Location

Sevastopol

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0513-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/UWBUS.2006.307153

Filename

4099211