Tracking Acquisition for Directed Scan

1. What is scanning and tracking?
2. How track while scan works?
3. What is meant by tracking and pointing?
4. What is satellite beam acquisition?

What is scanning and tracking?

A child needs to use visual scanning to avoid obstacles when navigating their environment. Smooth visual scanning is required for reading. Visual tracking is defined as efficiently focusing on an object as it moves across a person's visual field.

How track while scan works?

The track while scan (TWS) is a mode of radar operation in which the radar allocates part of its power to tracking the target or targets while part of its power is allocated to scanning, unlike the straight tracking mode, when the radar directs all its power to tracking the acquired targets.

What is meant by tracking and pointing?

Signal acquisition is the alignment process of the receiver in the arrival direction of the beam. Tracking is the maintenance of both pointing and signal acquisition throughout the optical communication between communicat- ing terminals.

What is satellite beam acquisition?

Here infact the transmitting satellite firstly receives the. beacon from the receiving satellite and then transmits its modulated. laser beam (data etc) back to the receiving satellite. Thus the. receiving satellite's location can be obtained and the pointing error.