BEAM ANDWAVEFORM SCHEDULING APPROACH TO COMBINED RADAR SURVEILLANCE & TRACKING – THE PARANOID TRACKER.

In several previous papers, we have applied single and mul-tiple step ahead scheduling techniques to reduce the amount of time an adaptive radar spends on tracking known targets while retaining a given level of track accuracy. This paper reports on our initial study of practical methods for achiev-ing a unification of surveillance and tracking in terms of radar resource management. The method proposed here in-volves the introduction of permanently existing virtual tar-gets, judiciously placed in the field of view of the radar. The tracker’s belief in the existence of the virtual or ficti-tious targets led us to the name Paranoid Tracker for this approach. 1 The Paranoid Tracker Modern radar systems have considerable flexibility in thei