Aircraft Track Initiation and Maintenance in a Single-Operator Simulated Surveillance System: Technical Report II.

Abstract

A semiautomatic radar surveillance system using a time-compression mode for display of real-time radar data was simulated. Subjects were required to detect targets entering the surveillance area (75 by 75 nautical miles), initiate automatic tracking of these targets, and reinitiate (maintain) 'lost' tracks when automatic tracking failed. Four target introduction rates (2, 3, and 4/minute and a distributed rate with a mean of 2.5 targets/minute), three levels of clutter density (0.016, 0.032, and 0.064 pieces per square nautical mile), and two levels of target velocity (500 and 900 knots) were investigated. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1971
Accession Number
AD0741902

Entities

People

  • Michael A. Bauer
  • Robert G. Mills

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Automatic
  • Automatic Tracking
  • Compression
  • Maintenance
  • Nautical
  • Semiautomatic
  • Surveillance
  • Time Compression

Readers

  • Aerospace Test and Evaluation
  • Radar Systems Engineering.
  • Sensor Fusion and Tracking Systems.