Short-wavelength target modeling
Abstract
A simplified model has been employed to review the scattering characteristics of targets in the short wavelength limit. It is demonstrated that the reflected signal can be modeled as a diffuse plus a finite number of coherent returns (also called glints). It is then demonstrated that for accurate target location and direction it is usually necessary to decorrelate these glint returns. The conditions required for this are derived.
- Publication:
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IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
- Pub Date:
- January 1984
- DOI:
- 10.1109/TAP.1984.1143184
- Bibcode:
- 1984ITAP...32..105F
- Keywords:
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- Microwave Scattering;
- Physical Optics;
- Radar Scattering;
- Signal Reflection;
- Target Recognition;
- Probability Density Functions;
- Radar Echoes;
- Surface Roughness Effects;
- Communications and Radar