STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF RADAR TARGET SCINTILLATION

Abstract

For slender, axially symmetrical targets that are much longer than the RF wavelength, radar scintillation is analyzed and described in terms of statistical parameters. The following sets of quantities were derived and computed: (a) mean radar cross sections, their RMS fluctuations and average lobing frequencies, (b) mean target centroids, their RMS DEVIATIONS AND average meandering rates. These and other variables were expressed as functions of the aspect angle, radio frequency and of configurational details.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1967
Accession Number
AD0830877

Entities

People

  • E. Shotland

Organizations

  • Johns Hopkins University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Automatic Gain Control
  • Complex Variables
  • Delta Functions
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Equations
  • Gaussian Processes
  • Geometry
  • Numerical Analysis
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Probability
  • Random Variables
  • Standards
  • Stationary Processes
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Statistical Distributions
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Dynamics.
  • Radar Systems Engineering.
  • Regression Analysis.