Techniques of radar reflectivity measurement
Abstract
The experimental determination of radar reflectivities (RRs) is examined in an introductory and reference text comprising review chapters contributed by leading experts. Chapters are devoted to the fundamentals of RR measurement, the radar cross section (RCS), basic RCS measurement concepts and systems, RR calibration procedures, data-acquisition and recording systems, data-analysis procedures, bistatic RCS measurements, far-field RCS measurement ranges, organization of test programs, ground-truth measurements, statistical properties of RR data, radar angle measurements, and radiometric measurements. Graphs, diagrams, and photographs are provided.
- Publication:
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Dedham
- Pub Date:
- 1984
- Bibcode:
- 1984ah...book.....C
- Keywords:
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- Radar Echoes;
- Radar Measurement;
- Reflectance;
- Accuracy;
- Calibrating;
- Clutter;
- Continuous Wave Radar;
- Doppler Radar;
- Far Fields;
- Frequency Modulation;
- Ground Truth;
- Magnetic Recording;
- Millimeter Waves;
- Polarization (Waves);
- Probability Density Functions;
- Pulsed Lasers;
- Radar Scattering;
- Radar Targets;
- Communications and Radar