Cumulative Probability of Detection of Fast Targets Using Frequency Diverse Array Radar

Abstract

One dimensional Frequency Diverse Array (FDA) concept is applied to a planar phased array (PA) radar in one dimension. The radar operates as a pulsed FDA in the transmission (TX) mode in one dimension while it operates as a pulsed phased array (PA) in the other TX dimension. In the receiving (RX) mode the array is full PA. The low energy of the TX FDA waveform is compensated by the rapid angular scanning and the use of the cumulative probability of detection scheme.