Calvulation of the Radar Cross Section of a Perfectly Conducting Sphere

Abstract

A Fortran computer program has been written to compute the radar cross section of a conducting sphere. The program is useful when a metal sphere is used as a standard target for calibrating a radar for target-cross-section measurement. It has been used to machine-plot with high precision a curve of cross section (normalized to the optical cross section) as a function of the radius/wavelength ratio. The computed data used to plot the curve are also presented in tabular form. The mathematics of the problem are briefly reviewed, and a listing of the computed program is given.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1972
Accession Number
AD0740746

Entities

People

  • Lamont V. Blake

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Bessel Functions
  • Complex Numbers
  • Computations
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Frequency
  • Mathematics
  • Measurement
  • Military Research
  • Numbers
  • Optical Cross Sections
  • Precision
  • Procedures (Computers)
  • Radar Cross Sections
  • Standards

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Computer Science.
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