Sensor Netting Program. Volume 2. Field Demonstrations

Abstract

For sensor netting in ballistic missile defense (BMD), data must be transferred from one sensor to another. The purpose of the field demonstrations reported here was to demonstrate specific netting functions entailing data transfer from one radar to another remotely located radar under field conditions. At the White Sands Missile Range, target data from various objects were transferred from AMRAD, a mechanical tracking radar, to HAPDAR, a phased array radar driven by an IBM 360/65 computer using special BMD software. The two radars were separated by about ten miles. This report describes the software developed for these demonstrations and the tests that were carried out to demonstrate target transfer from one radar to another and target track association or correlation between independent tracks of the two radars.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1973
Accession Number
AD0912452

Entities

People

  • David G. Falconer
  • Earl T. Brandon
  • Henry A. Olender

Organizations

  • SRI International

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Automatic Gain Control
  • Ballistic Missiles
  • Central Processing Units
  • Computational Science
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Data Processing
  • Data Transmission
  • Digital Communications
  • Fire Control Radar
  • Magnetic Tape
  • Phased Array Radar
  • Phased Arrays
  • Radar
  • Software Development
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Test Facilities

Readers

  • Missile Defense Systems.
  • Radar Systems Engineering.
  • Sensor Fusion and Tracking Systems.