I thought you were questioning the source of the "2 or 3"jesus wept
you asked a question...
i replied "2 or 3" (rather incredulously hence the goddamn question mark)
It's quite simple: the FAR is nothing to do with the number of readings it's to do with total system operating time.hehe
so?
Pick oneprove it. give me a citation other than the one i bolded and quoted
http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=Radar+false+alarm+rate
As your own source (and the next you gave) states the FAR is a function of signal and noise - there's always background noise, and interference.
It's the smallest distance increment a radar is capable of detecting. And THAT equation also tells you it's a time-based rate. PRT is pulse repetition time, the inverse of the PRF (frequency).this is prt and rather than guess what "rangecells" is, i'll ask you, mr actual knowledge
Unfortunately for you that was conventional terminology.this is what i ask of all woo woos...stick to conventional terminology. thanks
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source_intelligencethe term "open" refers to overt, publicly available sources (as opposed to covert or classified sources); it is not related to open-source software or public intelligence.