Lunar Echo Boresighting of Large Aperture Systems

An automatic technique for boresighting large aperture radar systems has been demonstrated and implemented. The technique uses the actively tracked Moon as a reference standard and achieves angular accuracies on the order of 0.1 mil using a simple error theory. The automatic reduction technique used for processing the large number of measurements is presented. The application of this technique to existing systems will allow accurate boresighting of these large aperture systems to a high degree of accuracy.