Electronic Support Measures is a discipline of electronic warfare. In electronic
support measures, receivers must maintain surveillance over the very wide portion
of the electromagnetic spectrum in which threat emitters operate. In current receiver
technology, it is not possible to have a receiver which is at once both able to
discriminate multiple simultaneous emissions and highly sensitive. A common
approach is to use a receiver with a relatively narrow bandwidth that sweeps its
centre frequency over the threat bandwidth to search for emitters. The sequence and
timing of changes in the centre frequency constitute a search strategy or sensor
scheduling problem.
A good electronic support receiver should observe the threat emitters, usually
radars, very soon after it first begins transmitting, so in designing search strategy we
would like to ensure that the intercept time is low or the probability of intercept
after a specified time is high.
In this thesis, we study the search strategies used in electronic support measures
receivers. Moreover, a search strategy based on probability of intercept of the threats is proposed. The performances of the search strategies are compared at the
end of the thesis.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:METU/oai:etd.lib.metu.edu.tr:http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12614779/index.pdf |
| Date | 01 September 2012 |
| Creators | Balaban, Halim Sinan |
| Contributors | Kuzuoglu, Mustafa |
| Publisher | METU |
| Source Sets | Middle East Technical Univ. |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | M.S. Thesis |
| Format | text/pdf |
| Rights | To liberate the content for METU campus |
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