Author:Hakl, H; Davies, E; le Roux, WHDate:Jan 2010A method to infer height information from an aircraft tracked with a single 2-D search radar is presented. The method assumes level flight in the target aircraft and a good estimate of the speed of the aircraft. The method yields good results ...Read more
Author:Maasdorp, FDV; Nadjiasngar, R; Inggs, MRDate:Oct 2014This paper investigates the theoretical placement of receivers in an Commensal Radar (CR), Doppler only tracking system with a single transmitter multiple receiver configuration. Theory, based on the Fisher Information matrix (FIM), is developed ...Read more
Author:Botha, LDate:Sep 2012The cost of antennas for instrumentation radars are determined by the development cost. By re-use of the reflector system cost effective antennas can be designed. The factors governing the design of such antennas are described here.Read more
Author:Du Plessis, WP; Odendaal, JW; Joubert, JDate:Jan 2010Experimental measurements that accurately simulate the effect of a retrodirective cross-eye jammer on a monopulse radar are described. The accuracy of a recently published extended analysis of retrodirective crosseye jamming and the limitations ...Read more
Author:Du Plessis, WP; Odendaal, JW; Joubert, JDate:Sep 2009An extended and rigorous analysis of retrodirective cross-eye jamming in a radar system scenario is presented. This analysis removes the approximations that limit the validity of other analyses of cross-eye jamming. These results imply that ...Read more
Author:Du Plessis, WPDate:Jan 2012The effect of platform skin return on retrodirective cross-eye jamming is analysed, allowing the parameters of a cross-eye jammer in the presence of skin return to be determined. The inherently unknown phase of the platform skin return is ...Read more
Author:Du Plessis, WP; Odendaal, JW; Joubert, JDate:Jan 2010The matching required between the two directions through a retrodirective cross-eye jammer is considered using both the traditional phase-front analysis and an extended analysis. The design parameters to achieve a specified tracking error are ...Read more