Investigation of a radar site effect
Abstract
An experimental investigation is described of the scattering effect responsible for large errors in the azimuth bearing measurements obtained with a 1 GHz monopulse receiver on a particular site when the signal source occupied positions near the top of a distant hill. The received field distribution on a horizontal line directly in front of the monopulse aperture was sampled by means of a travelling probe antenna and recorded holographically. Computer processing of the holograms formed images that revealed the scattering mechanism. A simulation was used to study the effects of different components of the multipath field on the monopulse measurement.
- Publication:
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IEE Proceedings F: Communications Radar and Signal Processing
- Pub Date:
- December 1984
- Bibcode:
- 1984IPCRS.131..695L
- Keywords:
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- Ground Effect (Communications);
- Image Processing;
- Monopulse Radar;
- Radar Scattering;
- Radar Transmitters;
- Site Selection;
- Error Analysis;
- Image Reconstruction;
- Monopulse Antennas;
- Multipath Transmission;
- Radar Antennas;
- Radar Reception;
- Surface Roughness Effects;
- Communications and Radar