What is the Radar Tracking 'Glint' Problem and Can It Be Solved

Abstract

We present an elementary tutorial on the glint problem in radar tracking. Our approach uses a very simple model yet, because of several original observations, it allows us to make some very general observations about glint. In addition, we briefly survey the collected standard mitigating approaches and comment on their relative merits and shortcomings.... Diversity methods, Glint, Scintillation, Tracking error.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1993
Accession Number
ADA266509

Entities

People

  • Brett Borden

Organizations

  • Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aerial Warfare
  • Air Force
  • Bandwidth
  • Carrier Frequencies
  • Electromagnetic Scattering
  • Frequency
  • Frequency Agility
  • Frequency Diversity
  • Information Operations
  • Observation
  • Radar
  • Radar Tracking
  • Scattering
  • Standards
  • Statistics
  • Target Tracking
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Radar Systems Engineering.
  • Systems Analysis and Design