TY - GEN
T1 - Correction of refracted propagation effects for airborne radar tracking
AU - Fortunati, Stefano
AU - Gini, Fulvio
AU - Greco, Maria
AU - Farina, Alfonso
AU - Graziano, Antonio
AU - Giompapa, Sofia
AU - Castella, Frank R.
PY - 2010/7/30
Y1 - 2010/7/30
N2 - This paper is devoted to the study of mathematical models for the refracted propagation effects and their correction for airborne radar tracking. Given an atmosphere of varying refractive index, the path of the EM radiation is curved and this causes bias errors on range and elevation radar measurements. First, we model these atmospheric errors and then we generate the corrupted measures. Second, we process the synthetic data to evaluate the bias of range and elevation errors. Finally, an algorithm, based on the Kalman Filter (KF) is proposed in order to remove such errors and improve tracking performance. Both theoretical and numerical results are described.
AB - This paper is devoted to the study of mathematical models for the refracted propagation effects and their correction for airborne radar tracking. Given an atmosphere of varying refractive index, the path of the EM radiation is curved and this causes bias errors on range and elevation radar measurements. First, we model these atmospheric errors and then we generate the corrupted measures. Second, we process the synthetic data to evaluate the bias of range and elevation errors. Finally, an algorithm, based on the Kalman Filter (KF) is proposed in order to remove such errors and improve tracking performance. Both theoretical and numerical results are described.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/77954919666
U2 - 10.1109/RADAR.2010.5494553
DO - 10.1109/RADAR.2010.5494553
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:77954919666
SN - 9781424458127
T3 - IEEE National Radar Conference - Proceedings
SP - 578
EP - 583
BT - 2010 IEEE Radar Conference
T2 - IEEE International Radar Conference 2010, RADAR 2010
Y2 - 10 May 2010 through 14 May 2010
ER -