Bistatic Radar Cross Sections of Chaff

Abstract

Bistatic cross sections applicable to scattering from a cloud of randomly positioned and randomly oriented resonant dipoles, or chaff, are found. The chaff cloud can have an arbitrary location relative to an illuminating radar and the radar antenna can have an arbitrarily specified polarization. The receiver can be located arbitrarily in relation to the radar and chaff cloud and can also have arbitrary polarization (different from transmitter antenna). Average cross sections are found a preferred receiver polarization, and the corresponding orthogonal polarization. Results are reduced to simple, easily applied expressions, and several examples are developed to illustrate the ease with which the general results can be applied in practice.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1983
Accession Number
ADA133967

Entities

People

  • Barry Stann
  • Peyton Z. Peebles Jr.

Organizations

  • University of Florida

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Antennas
  • Backscattering
  • Bistatic Radar
  • Circular Polarization
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Countermeasures
  • Cross Polarization
  • Electric Fields
  • Electromagnetic Scattering
  • Electronic Warfare
  • Frequency
  • Linear Polarization
  • Polarization
  • Radar
  • Radar Cross Sections
  • Scattering
  • Transmitters

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Electromagnetic Wave Scattering and Antenna Radiation Engineering
  • Regression Analysis.
  • Sensor Fusion and Tracking Systems.