Cognitive radar - enabling techniques for next generation radar systems

Cognitive radar is a young discipline with the claim to open the door for next generation radar systems providing a higher efficiency, robust operation via intelligent choice of radar actions, and even a high degree of autonomy. The ideas behind are collected in the two most influential textbooks by Haykin [1] and Guerci [2]. Both contain also experimental results while there are not much papers else presenting real world experience. In this paper we summarize the general approach and discuss two examples for application of cognitive radar.