TABLE OF CONTENTS Radars are increasingly being used as integral parts of complex systems. Examples include air traffic control systems, ballistic-missile defense systems, air defense systems, and targeting systems for land attack. Analysis of radar in such systems requires representing the radar operation and performance in the context of the overall system and the external environment. The radar performance must be evaluated in performing system tasks, and the impact of radar operation on system performance must be quantified.
Analysis of such systems may use a variety of tools, ranging from simple off line calculations of radar performance to complex computer simulations of overall system operation. Models of radar operation and performance are needed for these system-level analyses. The radar representations in these models must be responsive to the to the key radar characteristics, system interfaces, and performance measures.
However, they should be simple enough to allow their use in large-scale system simulations, and to represent radar whose detailed design is not fully known. Radar simulations used for detailed radar design and analysis are generally too complex for such system-level analysis.
This book addresses the needs of system analysts for radar models and analysis tools. It describes the basic principles of radar operation, how radar is configured and used in military and civilian systems, and how to analyze and model radar at the system level. The book presents and explains equations, computational methods, and data, and provides insight on how to use the models in system analysis. The book...
