Bistatic Radar Cross Sections of Horizontally Oriented Chaff

Abstract

Bistatic Radar Cross sections are determined for scattering from a cloud of randomly positioned resonant dipoles (chaff). Dipoles are assumed to be horizontally oriented with axes randomly oriented in the horizontal plane. The cloud is arbitrarily located relative to an illuminating source having an arbitrary (elliptical) polarization. Cloud cross section is found for an arbitrarily located receiver that views the cloud with an antenna of arbitrary polarization. A cross section applicable to the receiver's orthogonal polarization is also found.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1984
Accession Number
ADA140903

Entities

People

  • Peyton Z. Peebles Jr.

Organizations

  • University of Florida

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Bistatic Radar
  • Circular Polarization
  • Coefficients
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Digital Computers
  • Electric Fields
  • Electrons
  • Equations
  • Geometry
  • Linear Polarization
  • Polarization
  • Radar
  • Radar Cross Sections
  • Scattering
  • Technical Information Centers
  • Transmitters
  • Two Dimensional

Readers

  • Aerodynamics/Aeronautics.
  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Radar Systems Engineering.