Augmented Radar Beacon Tracking Level System Design Specification

Abstract

The document is a system specification for the Augmented Radar Beacon Tracking Level (RBTL) system. The Augmented RBTL expands the Beacon Tracking Level (BTL) ARTS III system by providing the capability of automatically tracking and displaying information on both non-beacon and beacon-equipped aircraft. In addition, this system provides improved tracking techniques together with new techniques for improving the controller-computer interface. The Augmented RBTL system expands the ARTS III system, but retains the ARTS III features. Primary radar processing is accomplished through the addition of an Radar Data Acquisition Subsystem (RDAS) together with radar processing software. The RDAS accepts basic timing and radar video information from a search radar. It provides quantized video hits to the ARTS computer (IOP) in the form of 30 bit words. The computer uses these hits to perform radar target detection land position estimation.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1974
Accession Number
ADA002415

Entities

People

  • L. Huff
  • M. Wold

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Air Platforms
  • C4I
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Circuit Boards
  • Command And Control
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Data Processing
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Operating Systems
  • Procedures (Computers)
  • Radar
  • Radar Beacons
  • Radar Equipment
  • Reliability
  • Scheduling (Production)
  • Semiconductor Devices
  • Test Equipment

Readers

  • Aviation Safety and Air Traffic Management
  • Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Data Science/Digital Signal Processing.
  • Radar Systems Engineering.