Detection Performance of the AN/TPN-19 PAR (Precision Approach Radar)

Abstract

72-238(*GROUND-CONTROLLED APPROACH RADAR, DETECTION), PROBABILITY, MOVING TARGET INDICATORS, RADAR SCANNING, SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO, COMPUTER PROGRAMSAN/TPN-19The purpose of the report is to determine the receiver operating characteristics of the AN/TPN-19 PAR Air Force radar in some of its operating modes. The scan mode and the coherent MTI (Moving Target Indicator) mode will be considered for the case when the received target signal is corrupted by white Gaussian noise only. The MTI loss (the increase in signal-to- oise ratio required for the same detection performance when switching from the scan mode to the MTI mode) is also determined and discussed. Methods for improving the MTI performance are given and evaluated.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1973
Accession Number
AD0768330

Entities

People

  • Vincent C. Vannicola

Organizations

  • Rome Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Amplitude
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Detection
  • False Alarms
  • Frequency
  • Gaussian Noise
  • Integrals
  • Moving Target Indicator Radar
  • Moving Targets
  • Probability
  • Probability Density Functions
  • Radar
  • Random Variables
  • Statistics
  • Targets

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Radar Systems Engineering.