Monopulse Estimation of the Centroid of an Ensemble of Radar Scatterers
- 1 January 1975
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems
- Vol. AES-11 (1) , 94-102
- https://doi.org/10.1109/TAES.1975.308032
Abstract
The use of data obtained by a monopulse radar to estimate the location of the radar cross-section centroid of an ensemble of scatterers is discussed. Both dish and phased-array antenna radars are treated. Expressions for the bias and variance of the centroid estimates are presented, including the effects of the radar receiver and beam pattern characteristics, receiver noise, and the video waveform sampling granularity, as well as the target properties. The monopulse tracking approach discussed here is contrasted with a raster scan approach presented previously.Keywords
This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
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- Raster Scan Track of a Radar Scatterer EnsembleIEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 1972