Processing of information from networks of airspace surveillance radar systems

The presented paper examines the principles and methods for processing of information from airspace surveillance radar networks. Information technologies allow implementing automatic collection, processing, storage, transmission and issuance of radar information to users. In this work, the synthesis and analysis of the optimal structure of the interstage processing of signal data and radar information of primary processing in the network of airspace surveillance radar systems is carried out. The quality of information from radar networks of airspace surveillance systems affects almost all indicators of the quality of the radar systems network functioning. The stages of radar information processing in radar systems networks are analyzed. The importance of specifying the above stages for creating a complete picture of the air situation in the area of responsibility is shown. To improve the quality of information support for consumers, a network of radar systems requires information processing at all stages. At each stage of information processing, information processing quality indicators were analyzed. This made it possible to show that the staged implementation of information processing, on the one hand, simplified the optimization of processing within each processing stage, but on the other hand, it made it difficult to carry out compatible optimization of both the detection of an aerial object and the measurement of the coordinates of an aerial object. The synthesized structure of processing radar information of the network of radar systems of airspace surveillance, which in its turn made it possible to carry out interstage optimization of processing of both signal data and primary processing information. Calculations have shown that the method of information processing, in which the combination of information is carried out at the level of decision-making on the detection of airborne objects in each signal data processing channel, has some advantages in the quality of information processing of the network of radar systems compared to the one currently used. time option combination information at the stage of signal processing. At the same time, for the method of combining information at the level of decision-making about the detection of aerial objects, the flow of transmitted information to the joint processing point is significantly reduced. All this allows improving the quality of information processing in the airspace control system.