RADAR MASKING BY EARTH'S TERRAIN.

Abstract

The masking of a radar's search volume by earth's terrain is a problem of interest in the placement of radars. In practice, exhaustive surveys and modelled operations may be carried out before final placement is made; it is not the intention of this paper to try to obviate such surveys, but to provide a means based on earth's surface elevation data--such as from contour maps--to determine the sensitivity of a radar's location to its performance, i.e., to give some measure to the intuition which says it's better to be on a hill than in a hole. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1966
Accession Number
AD0633540

Entities

People

  • John J. Martin

Organizations

  • Institute for Defense Analyses

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DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Elevation
  • Sensitivity

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