Towards an Information Theory of Radar

雷达是澳大利亚国防的关键传感技术。它还被用于几个民用应用中。最近在工程和科学方面的进步大大提高了雷达硬件的固有能力。尽管如此，现役和计划中的雷达无法对抗当前的许多威胁。在很大程度上，这些新的能力尚未得到充分利用，这在很大程度上是因为缺乏与这种非常成功的电信理论相对应的雷达信息理论。我们的工作虽然着眼于雷达理论的基本思想，但将导致改进的雷达能力的产生，从而改进威胁检测和跟踪。

Radar is a key sensing technology for the defence of Australia. It is also used in several civilian applications. Recent advances in engineering and science have led to significantly increased inherent capabilities for radar hardware. Nonetheless, radars in service and planned are unable to counter many current threats. To a large extent these new capabilities have yet to be fully exploited, and in large part this is because of the lack of an information theory for radar that corresponds to the highly successful theory of this kind for telecommunications. Our work, though pitched at fundamental ideas in the theory of radar, will lead to the production of improved radar capability that will permit improved threat detection and tracking.