Search Track Spacing and Coverage

Single-pass probability of detection from corrected sweep width and track spacing (coverage = W/S, POD = 1 - e^-coverage), or the spacing that hits a target POD. The planning number a search segment's resources are set from.

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coverage = sweep_width / track_spacing; POD = 1 - e^(-coverage); track_spacing = sweep_width / (-ln(1 - target_POD)).

NSARC / USCG search theory (exponential random-search detection model), by name.

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