In this chapter the roles and requirements for surveillance radar are briefly reviewed in order to provide the background against which applications particularly suited to a ground-based staring radar configuration can be introduced. Most modern surveillance radar systems carry out multiple tasks such as detection, tracking and, sometimes, target classification. Examples include civil and military Air Traffic Management (ATM), maritime surveillance and military air-defence radar.

Chapter Contents:

• 2.1 Requirements for surveillance
• 2.2 Air surveillance
• 2.3 Ground surveillance
• 2.4 The range of uses of HSR
• References

Inspec keywords: radar detection; radar tracking; search radar

Other keywords: radar detection; radar tracking; civil air traffic management; ground-based staring radar configuration; military air-defence radar; surveillance radar systems; military air traffic management; maritime surveillance; target classification; ATM

Subjects: Radar and radiowave systems (military and defence); Radar equipment, systems and applications; Signal detection