Radar interferometers provide a cost-effective radar architecture to achieve a greater degree of angle accuracy for enhanced target tracking.
Presenting a comprehensive understanding of various radar interferometer architectures, Angle of Arrival Estimation Using Radar Interferometry aims to quantify interferometer angle estimation accuracy.
The interferometer architectures described include; a basic digital interferometer, a monopulse interferometer, an orthogonal interferometer and signal processing algorithms. The techniques described show high accuracy of arrival estimation while also reducing the cost of traditional radar tracking systems.
Featuring some new material and alternative derivations on radar target tracking, Angle of Arrival Estimation Using Radar Interferometry identifies and quantifies radar-based measurement errors on the performance of angle-of-arrival estimation.
By exploring interferometry and beyond, this book offers a unique perspective and an in depth look at the derivation of angle error equations for a radar interferometer as affected not only by additive noise but by other error effects such as multipath, glint, and spectral distortion.
Angle of Arrival Estimation Using Radar Interferometry would suit practicing radar design engineers and researchers within both the radar community and the military industrial sector.
Author(s): E. Jeff Holder
Publisher: SciTech Publishing
Year: 2014
Language: English
Pages: xxiv+334
1 Applications of RF Interferometry
2 Probability Theory
3 Radar Fundamentals
4 Radar Angle-of-Arrival Estimation
5 Radar Waveforms
6 The Radar Interferometer
7 Interferometer Signal Processing
8 Sparsely Populated Antenna Arrays
9 Interferometer Angle-of-Arrival Error Effects
10 Tropospheric Effects on Angle-of-Arrival
Appendix A: Discrete Fourier Transform
Appendix B: The Matched Filter
Appendix C: The Principle of Stationary Phase
Appendix D: The Fundamental Theory of Binary Code
Appendix E: Theoretical Development of Kasami Codes
Appendix F: Relationship of the Continuous Power Spectrum and Discrete Variance
Appendix G: Time-of-Arrival CRLB (Alternative Approach)
Appendix H: Two-Dimensional Trilateration Using CPT and RGS Ranging Methods—MATLAB® Code
Appendix I: Angle-of-Arrival Determination Using a Rotated Antenna Configuration
Appendix J: First- and Second-Order Interferometer Angle Measurements—MATLAB® Code
Appendix K: Interferometer Angle Measurements for Distributed Transmit/Receive Antennas—MATLAB® Code
