C&R Tree based Air Target Classification Using Kinematics

Since the improvement in Anti Radar Material technology and stealth technology grows, there are immense counter measures that have opened to deny such technologies for classification to the adversary. At the same time it is observed that radar is continuously tracking the air target. This track data represents the kinematics which can be efficiently manipulated for effective classification without being deceived. The present study uses decision tree based classifier, specifically Classification and Regression Tree (CRT) algorithm over certain significant feature vectors. It classifies the data set of an air target into a target class where feature vectors are derived from the Radar Track Data using Matlab code. The work presented here aims to assess the performance of CRT. Although the methods and results presented here are for Air Target Classification, they may give insight for other applications. KeywordsAir Target Classification, CRT Classifier, Feature Vectors, Kinematics, Radar Track data.