Polarization Processing Techniques Study

Abstract

Polarization serves as a discrimant between radar targets and surrounding chaff and clutter. A dual channel system is required to utilize polarization information which exists in the target scattering matrix. Several methods are presented for designing an optimum polarization codes transmit waveform and matched coherent receiver based on target and clutter statistics. Simulation results for various target models against chaff show a significant increase in detectability for the two-channel system.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1979
Accession Number
ADA080565

Entities

People

  • Albert Klein
  • David Hammers
  • George Ioannidis
  • Masaaki Fujita
  • Nhan Levan

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Circular Polarization
  • Computational Science
  • Computations
  • Computer Simulations
  • Data Science
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Equations
  • Information Science
  • Integral Equations
  • Mathematical Filters
  • Radar
  • Random Variables
  • Signal Processing
  • Statistical Algorithms
  • Stochastic Processes
  • Targets

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Radar Systems Engineering.