Radar Reports & Graphs

STK Radar includes a wide variety of report and graph elements specifically related to radar that can be used in generating custom reports and graphs. The following are listed only as examples of the wide variety of radar report and graph options available.

Some Typical Report & Graph Styles

One of several important radar characteristics that varies over time and/or distance is radar cross section (RCS). A typical RCS report might show, for example, changes in the RCS of a target aircraft as the range between it and a ground-based radar changes.

Creating Radar Reports & Graphs

You can create many radar reports and graphs by selecting Report & Graph Manager from the Analysis menu. But, if the report or graph involves the relationship between a radar and a target, you must proceed via the Access window, so that the targets assigned to a radar (or the radars available for a target) can be identified.

Radar Data Providers

The Radar data providers produce four sets of performance data for:

  • The radar’s main channel. Examples of the search/track parameters are S/N, Probability of Detection, and Dwell Time. This set of data can be produce with or without the polarization enabled.
  • When the main channel radar receiver is experiencing jamming. When the radar receiver polarization is set and the jammers are polarized, the search/track parameters take polarization mismatch into account. Most of these parameters are re-computed under the impact of jamming on the radar receiver's main channel.
  • The radar’s orthogonal polarization channel. For more information, see Orthogonal Polarization.
  • The orthogonal channel under the threat of jamming.

Similar sets are available for Search/Track and SAR mode analysis. Performance data is also available for the Search/Track Plugin and SAR Plugin.

Search/Track Data Providers

When analyzing a Search/Track mode, all four sets of performance data are computed according to the user-selected options for the polarization settings and the jamming analysis computation. The polarization may be enabled or disabled to analyze impact of signal polarization on radar system performance. Examples of Search/Track parameters are Single Pulse S/N, Single Pulse Probability of Detection, Dwell Time, Integrated S/N, Integrated Probability of Detection, and Pulses Integrated.

The Search/Track data providers compute complete sets of data and custom report styles give you flexibility and control over the types of data reported.

Search/Track Plugin

The plugin script interface makes available all four sets of Search/Track data. A total of 75 parameters covering radar-target geometry and Search/Track data are provided. Also, VGT data is provided for the Radar's VGT components. The complete list of interface parameters is available in the Search/Track plugin constraint template. All the input parameters and output figure of merit values are programmed in this fully functioning template.

SAR Data Providers

The SAR mode analysis also creates four sets of SAR parameters that correspond to the polarization and compute jamming selections. The custom report styles give you the option to manage the data reporting.

SAR Plugin

The plugin script interface makes available all four sets of SAR data. A total of 56 parameters covering radar-target geometry and SAR data are provided. Also, VGT data is provided for the Radar's VGT components. The complete list of the interface parameters is available in the SAR plugin constraint template.