Waveform libraries for radar tracking applications
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- 1 November 2004
- conference paper
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- p. 1-5
Abstract
In this paper we consider the design of waveform libraries for radars capable of PRI to PRI waveform switching. In particular, we concentrate on the design of waveform libraries to optimise the performance of the radar's tracking system. Our approach is to define a utility function for each waveform library based on the mutual information between the measurements made possible by the wave-forms in the library and the types of posterior distributions (state covariances) which could potentially be produced by the tracking system. We also propose some possible waveform libraries based on symplectic transformation of a fixed waveform and analyse these in terms of our utility function.Keywords
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