The ARIES Program: Coordinates, Transformations, Trajectories and Tracking

Abstract

This report presents the relations necessary to define the motion of a target in the gravitational field of the earth. In order to express this target motion in the frame of a radar, an appropriate set of coordinate systems (and transformations) is introduced. Target tracking in the form of a Maximum Likelihood Estimator is discussed. The problem of interceptor miss distance is treated from the standpoint of the uncertainty volumes associated with estimated target state vectors.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 05, 1975
Accession Number
ADA015815

Entities

People

  • Bliss L. Diamond
  • Michael E. Austin

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Cartesian Coordinates
  • Computational Science
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Earth Models
  • Equations
  • Equations Of Motion
  • Estimators
  • Geometry
  • Gravitational Fields
  • Mathematics
  • Models
  • Phased Array Radar
  • Phased Arrays
  • Radar Faces
  • Statistics
  • Target Tracking
  • Trajectories

Readers

  • Geodesy
  • Regression Analysis.
  • Sensor Fusion and Tracking Systems.