Exact Probability Density Function of the Monopulse Ratio

Abstract

It has been shown that unless there is only a single on-axis target, the angle estimator (monopulse ratio) at the output of a monopulse radar is biased. No matter how large the signal-to-noise ratio, the variance of the estimate is unbounded. A measure of the spread of the probability density function has been introduced and a procedure developed to calculate the spread from the exact closed form expression for the probability density function of the monopulse ratio. The bias is also available by numerically calculating the mean of the probability density function. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1978
Accession Number
ADA058459

Entities

People

  • Irving Kanter
  • Robert R. Boothe

Organizations

  • United States Army Aviation and Missile Command

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Bessel Functions
  • Boresights
  • Complex Numbers
  • Equations
  • Hypergeometric Functions
  • Infinite Series
  • Legendre Functions
  • Monopulse Radar
  • Multiple Targets
  • Numbers
  • Power Series
  • Probability
  • Probability Density Functions
  • Radar
  • Radar Receivers
  • Random Variables
  • Targets

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