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Related to tracking radars, conical scan and monopulse tracking has got to rank among the best brilliantly simple ideas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopulse
by mjb 4y ago
Related to tracking radars, conical scan and monopulse tracking has got to rank among the best brilliantly simple ideas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopulse_radar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopulse_radar
A monopulse tracking radar can track a target within hundredths of a degree, with no more than a handful of components. You can build a monopulse sonar with two opamps.
- derstander 4y agoThe rule of thumb that seems to be common among my peers is that monopulse offers an angle accuracy improvement of roughly 10 to 1 for objects with nominal SNR (13ish dB). So a radar with a real beam width of 1deg employing monopulse would result in an accuracy of 0.1deg if the object can be reliably detected.
- mjb 4y agoInteresting. I've been out of this field for 20 years, and the hundredths of a degree came from my fuzzy memory. Happy to defer to your more recent knowledge.