Compensating radar rotation in target tracking

For applications where the vessel carrying the radar is highly maneuverable, or the radar rotation frequency is low, it may be unreasonable to approximate the radar measurements as arriving simultaneously. This paper identifies effects caused by radar rotation and shows that these effects can degrade tracking performance. We present methods for mitigating the undesirable effects and apply these to a Joint Integrated Probabilistic Data Association (JIPDA) tracker. Results on simulated data show that the proposed methods give significant performance benefits.