An Adaptive Receiver Search Strategy for Electronic Support

In this paper, a search strategy for the detection of multifunctional radar emitters is proposed. The majority of today's literature regarding this topic models the intercept problem as that of the coincidence of two or more periodic window functions. Since this model is rather simplistic, in this paper the radars' illumination patterns are described by signal-to-noise ratio time series. To optimise the search dwells executed by an electronic support receiver, a constantly updated scan period estimate is calculated using the autocorrelation. The performance of the proposed algorithm is shown in comparison to several other approaches using a simulation framework.