Radar Detection Calculations with the HP-65 and HP-67

Abstract

Card programmable calculators together with suitable programs can easily provide numerical answers which formerly took large computers and volumes of tabular or plotted outputs for everyday reference. Presented here are derivations and program listings for the HP-65 and HP-67 calculators to provide the user with commonly used radar detection performance data. Both fixed threshold and adaptive threshold CFAR detection with noncoherent integration are covered. Recursive programs for the general chi-squared target fluctuation distribution are treated as well as faster running recursive programs for the Swerling target Cases I - IV. Also included are fast programs for the required detection signal-to-noise ratio based on the simplified algorithms of Barton.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1979
Accession Number
ADA071609

Entities

People

  • Marc A. Johnson

Organizations

  • General Electric

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Algorithms
  • Calculators
  • Classification
  • Computer Programming
  • Data Storage Systems
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • False Alarms
  • Infinite Series
  • Law
  • Noise
  • Photonic Metamaterials
  • Probability
  • Target Detection
  • Two Dimensional
  • Warning Systems

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Computer Science.
  • Radar Systems Engineering.
  • Statistical inference.