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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 01, 2011
Filed:
Dec. 08, 2008
Stefan M. Krause, Cherry Hill, NJ (US);
Eric D. Toal, Middletown, NJ (US);
Louis Lagonik, Voorhees, NJ (US);
Stefan M. Krause, Cherry Hill, NJ (US);
Eric D. Toal, Middletown, NJ (US);
Louis Lagonik, Voorhees, NJ (US);
Lockheed Martin Corproation, Bethesda, MD (US);
Abstract
According to an embodiment of the disclosure, a computer implemented method of configuring a land-based radar system for scanning a scan region is disclosed. The method comprises dividing the scan region into a grid of blocks and obtaining a terrain elevation data for the scan region. For an elevation angle for the radar system, determining those blocks in the grid that are visible to the radar system and those blocks that are not visible to the radar based on the terrain elevation data. Then, step of determining the visible blocks is repeated for all elevation angles in a predefined set of elevation angles for the radar system. Next, an optimal scan elevation angle for the radar system is determined as the scan elevation angle which resulted in the maximum number of visible blocks in the scan region and the radar system is set to the optimal scan elevation angle.