Comparison of the Performance of the Moving Target Detector and the Radar Video Digitizer.

摘要

Results of side by side simultaneous tests to compare the performance of the Moving Target Detector (MTD) digital signal processor and that of a newly developed adaptive sliding window detector, the Radar Video Digitizer (RVD-4), are described. The MTD, used with a highly modified FPS-18, employs coherent linear doppler filtering, adaptive thresholding, and a fine grained clutter map which together reject all forms of clutter simultaneously. The RVD-4, which was used with an ASR-7, is a non-linear, non-coherent digital processor. The detection and false alarm performance of both processors in thermal noise was identical. Measured detection and sub-clutter visibility performance of the MTD on controlled aircraft flying in heavy rain, in heavy ground clutter, and at near-zero radial velocity is shown to be superior to that of the RVD-4. MTD report data is also shown to be more accurate than the RVD-4 data resulting in improved ARTS-III tracker performance when using MTD processed data. (Author)