ASSOCIATION OF TRACK INFORMATION IN RADAR WITH ADDITIONAL MULTI-SCANNING OBSERVATION CHANNELS
The article analyzes surveillance radar structure with the main and additional channels. In the main channel of the radar, a two-stage radar information processing is implemented. The radar also includes an additional multi-scanning observation device whose functioning is based on combined processing of the results obtained within several scans. In each multi-scanning observation channel, the well-known "track-before-detect" procedure is implemented and it is assumed to process echo signals from several space scans stored in the buffer storage. We analyze the association of track information obtained in the main and additional channels of a surveillance radar. We consider options for associating track information obtained from several channels in order to increase the radar efficiency.