The RADOT Code for the Tracking of Radar Incident on Trees

Abstract

A computer code, RADOT, has been developed to track incident radar through forests consisting of realisitically simulated trees. RADOT fires parallel radar rays at the simulated forest and records information for all materials intersected between the origin and the ground. This information includes type of object (branch, twig or leaf), its size and orientation parameters (components of normal or axis vector) and the depth. Radot has been successfully installed on the ETL CDC-6400 computer. Other versions, for IBM-360 or CDC-6600 computers are also available.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1978
Accession Number
ADA063885

Entities

People

  • H. A. Steinberg
  • M. O. Cohen

Organizations

  • Geospatial Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Boundaries
  • Cells
  • Computer Simulations
  • Computers
  • Detection
  • Diameters
  • Focal Planes
  • Forests
  • High Resolution
  • Low Resolution
  • Magnetic Tape
  • Materials
  • Radar Tracking
  • Ray Tracing
  • Simulations
  • Target Recognition

Readers

  • Computer Science.
  • Computer Vision.
  • Forest Ecology