Multifunction Array Radar Design

By: Dale R. Billetter

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Hardcover | 1 July 1989

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This definitive book supplies the information needed to specify and design a multifunction array radar system. With minimal mathematics, the book shows how radars smaller in aperture and power can meet demands formerly conceived for the larger rotating and phased array radars.

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Non-Fiction Engineering & Technology Electronics & Communications Engineering Communications Engineering & Telecommunications Radar Technology Radio Technology Technology in General

Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xii
Introduction	p. xiii
Target Detection	p. xiii
Antenna Gain and Beamwidth	p. xiv
The Radar Equation	p. xiv
Monostatic	p. xv
Thermal Noise	p. xv
Signal Jamming Received through Antenna Sidelobes	p. xv
Signal Jamming Received through Antenna Main Lobe	p. xv
Area Clutter Received through Antenna Sidelobes	p. xv
Area Clutter Received through Antenna Main Lobe	p. xv
Volume Clutter Received through Antenna Sidelobes	p. xvi
Volume Clutter Received through Antenna Main Lobe	p. xvi
Bistatic	p. xvi
Communication	p. xvi
Tracking	p. xvii
Track Rate	p. xvii
Tracking Errors Due to Noise	p. xvii
Definitions	p. xvii
Symbols	p. xviii
Defining the MFAR	p. 1
Introduction to the Multifunction Array Radar	p. 3
Search	p. 4
Track	p. 4
Beam Steering	p. 5
Frequency Steering	p. 7
Phase Steering	p. 9
Time Delay Steering	p. 11
Types of Antennas	p. 13
Benefits	p. 14
Penalties	p. 15
Interactions and Compromises	p. 17
Specifying an MFAR	p. 21
Weapon Support	p. 22
Operating Environment	p. 25
Weapons	p. 25
Interference	p. 25
Jamming	p. 26
Clutter	p. 26
Target Density	p. 27
Deployment	p. 27
User Concerns	p. 28
Specification of Performance	p. 29
Spatial Allocation	p. 29
Bandwidth and Frequency Agility	p. 31
Detection	p. 33
Track	p. 36
Antenna Pattern Restrictions	p. 36
Other Specification Issues	p. 36
The MFAR Specification	p. 38
Radar System Design Considerations and Techniques	p. 41
Search Techniques and Considerations	p. 43
Energy-Range Profile	p. 43
Beam Spacing Lattice and Uniformity	p. 45
Search Parameter Selection	p. 55
Search Sequencing	p. 71
Search Fences and Interleaving	p. 73
Partial Integration	p. 77
Detection Thresholds	p. 82
Track Techniques and Considerations	p. 89
Track-while-Scan versus Track-and-Search	p. 89
Monopulse versus Beam Shape Angle Track	p. 96
Group Tracking	p. 98
Track Interleaving	p. 99
Track Filtering	p. 102
Waveform Considerations	p. 111
Search-Track Waveforms	p. 111
Energy Quantification	p. 113
Clutter Processing	p. 122
Designing an MFAR	p. 127
The Design Process	p. 129
The Beginning of the Process	p. 129
Establishing the Basic Requirements	p. 130
Radar System Design Constraints	p. 130
Budgets	p. 132
Developing a Baseline Design	p. 132
Evaluating the Baseline Design	p. 134
Refining the Design	p. 136
Intersegment Trade-Offs	p. 137
Functional Allocations among Segments	p. 137
Interfaces	p. 137
Antenna-Beam Steering	p. 137
Antenna-Signal Processor	p. 138
Signal Processor-Control Processor	p. 138
Self-Test	p. 139
Budget Allocations	p. 139
Trade-offs	p. 140
Antenna-Transmitter	p. 140
Antenna-Signal Processor	p. 140
Signal Processor-Transmitter	p. 141
Signal Processor-Control Processor	p. 143
Development of Segment Requirements	p. 144
Segment Trade-Offs Affecting Radar System Design	p. 145
Coverage of Individual Antenna Faces	p. 145
Degree of Autonomy of Each Aperture	p. 145
Type of Antenna Feed	p. 146
Fixed versus Variable Beamwidth	p. 147
Number of Antenna Inputs	p. 147
Sidelobe Level Control	p. 149
Sidelobe Location Control	p. 152
Antenna Receiving Pattern	p. 153
Antenna Transmitting Pattern	p. 156
Number of Antenna Elements	p. 156
Type of Phase Shifter	p. 157
Active versus Passive Receiving Elements	p. 159
Active versus Passive Transmitting Elements	p. 160
Size and Number of Transmitter Tubes	p. 164
Epilogue	p. 166
Application of Design Approach to A Rotating 3-D Radar	p. 167
Index	p. 185
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