A Foliage Penetration Summary

Abstract

A brief survey of existing data on foliage attenuation of RF energy is presented. It is shown that most researchers have concluded from this data that RF energy is attenuated more rapidly in foliage at higher frequencies. Also, signal reflections from the foliage/air interface are shown to be a significant loss mechanism that is relatively frequency independent. Finally, curves for predicting RF signal reflection from and attenuation within foliage are presented.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1978
Accession Number
ADA055391

Entities

People

  • August Golden

Organizations

  • Rome Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Attenuation
  • Coefficients
  • Conductivity
  • Current Density
  • Dielectric Permittivity
  • Dielectrics
  • Electric Fields
  • Electromagnetic Radiation
  • Electromagnetism
  • Equations
  • Frequency
  • Grazing Angles
  • Losses
  • Materials
  • Radar
  • Radio Waves
  • Wave Propagation

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