Patent ID: 8912947

Claim:
A method for searching a radar acquisition volume, comprising: receiving, by a communications unit, the radar acquisition volume; identifying, by a command and decision unit, an acquisition face of the acquisition volume; rotating the acquisition face by a rotation angle; partitioning, by the command and decision unit, the rotated acquisition face by: determining a maximum number of beams that can be searched in a predetermined time period; selecting an elevation line of the rotated acquisition face; determining a first number of radar beams that can be placed on the rotated acquisition face under the selected elevation line; comparing the first number of radar beams to the maximum number of radar beams; iteratively repositioning the selected elevation line to identify a highest elevation line for which the first number of radar beams is less than or equal to the maximum number of beams; wherein an area of the rotated acquisition face bounded by the highest elevation line defines a partitioned portion; and generating, by a radar beam controller, a search of each partitioned portion.