Radar Test Range Construction.

Abstract

The purpose of this report is to present the placement and configuration of the radar test range in Gila Bend, Arizona. The range has been designed to test the performance of the Flexible Test Bed (FTB) digital processor. The methodology and conceptual design of the radar test range are presented in a previous report. Construction of the radar range included locating appropriate test sites, installing the reflectors and obtaining ground truth data. Four separate radar range sites were constructed in order to optimize each site for a particular set of measurements. The radar test sites were named after the particular image quality parameters to be measured. The four radar range sites constructed were: (1) Calibration, (2) Linear, (3) Non-linear, and (4) Clutter-to-noise.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 23, 1980
Accession Number
ADA087391

Entities

People

  • Dave Phillips
  • Dino Sofianos

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Arrays
  • Calibration
  • Clutter
  • Corner Reflectors
  • Flight Paths
  • Grazing Angles
  • Landing Fields
  • Linear Arrays
  • Measurement
  • Mechanical Jamming
  • Photographs
  • Radar
  • Radar Equipment
  • Reflectors
  • Synthetic Aperture Radar
  • Test Beds

Readers

  • Aerospace Test and Evaluation
  • Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) of Proposed Air Force Base Actions.
  • Radar Systems Engineering.