Simulation of a Dynamic Aircraft Radar Signature.

Abstract

This report describes a package which simulates the dynamic radar signatures a radar receiver would expect when tracking a moving target such as an aircraft or a missile. The package consists of several MATLAB codes. The basic engagement simulated is a radar, such as seen on a fully active missile seeker, engaging a target such as an aircraft. The static scattering characteristics of the target are required as an input to the package. The package then simulates the radar-target engagement dynamics modeling the target motion and the physical target vibrations which effect the signature the radar receives. The outputs of the package are the scattered electric field, the Doppler shift, and the angular tracking error, or glint, all as seen by the radar. This package is meant to aid a hardware-in-the-loop simulation of a radar-target engagement.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 03, 1996
Accession Number
ADA310808

Entities

People

  • Joseph J. Sacchini

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Computational Science
  • Doppler Effect
  • Electric Fields
  • Electromagnetic Fields
  • Far Field
  • Frequency
  • Frequency Domain
  • Frequency Shift
  • Geometry
  • Radar Signatures
  • Radar Targets
  • Scattering
  • Simulations
  • Synthetic Aperture Radar
  • Three Dimensional
  • Two Dimensional

Readers

  • Missile Defense Systems.
  • Radar Systems Engineering.
  • Robotics and Automation.