A Two-Pole Filter for Use with a Scanning Radar.

Abstract

A two-pole filter was proposed as a detector for a scanning radar. The optimum values of the filter coefficients were found and are approximated by a simple expression. The optimum two-pole filter requires a 0.15-dB increase in signal-to-noise ratio in order to provide the same detection capability as the optimum detector and yields azimuth estimates whose standard deviation is within 15% of the Cramer-Rao lower bound. The estimator is simple to implement since it avoids the storage requirements of the moving window detector and the bias complications of the feedback integrator. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 07, 1974
Accession Number
AD0779253

Entities

People

  • Ben H. Cantrell
  • Gerard V. Trunk

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Coefficients
  • Data Science
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Estimators
  • Feedback
  • Information Science
  • Integrators
  • Mathematics
  • Scanning
  • Standards
  • Statistical Algorithms
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Warning Systems

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Approximation Theory.
  • Sensor Fusion and Tracking Systems.