Real Time Location of Targets in Cluttered Environments.

摘要

The consequences of windmill farms to radar systems presents a difficult challenge, especially when windmill farms are located near Air Force bases. Unfortunately, the requirements for locating the bases and farms results in conflicts, when the bases in flat areas away from populated areas and wind farms on higher ground surrounding them (as is often the case). The problem that we are addressing concerns any low flying aircraft approaching a base over such a wind farm. The current STTR project involves developing a method, based on using modern radar, enhanced with the new technique, Wave Confinement (WC), to accurately locate low flying aircraft approaching areas such as Air Force bases. Conventional schemes involve estimating the target location based on assumptions of the radar propagation path that often neglect important effects, when integral equation methods are used. These effects include index of refraction variations.