Performance Limits for Maritime Wide-Area Search (MWAS) Radar
- Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), Albuquerque, NM, and Livermore, CA (United States)
One of the earliest applications for radar was to search for and find maritime vessels on the open sea. Proper design and operation of an airborne Maritime Wide Area Search (MWAS) radar requires an understanding of system performance characteristics and limitations, and furthermore understanding the trades amongst a large number of interdependent system parameters. This report identifies and explores those characteristics and limits, and how they depend on hardware system parameters and environmental conditions. Ultimately, this leads to a characterization of parameters that offer optimum performance for the overall MWAS radar system. While the information herein is not new to the literature, its collection into a single report hopes to offer some value in reducing the 'seek time'. Acknowledgements This report was funded by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) Mission Systems under Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) SC08/01749 between Sandia National Laboratories and GA-ASI. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI), an affiliate of privately-held General Atomics, is a leading manufacturer of Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) systems, radars, and electro-optic and related mission systems, including the Predator/Gray Eagle-series and Lynx Multi-mode Radar. -
- Research Organization:
- Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States); General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI), San Diego, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC04-94AL85000; NA0003525
- OSTI ID:
- 1631080
- Report Number(s):
- SAND-2020-5041; CRADA-SC08/01749; 686228
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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