Simulation of Chaff Cloud Signature

Abstract

In this thesis time-varying radar cross sections of chaff clouds are generated for use in radar/ECM computer simulations, under the assumption that scattering from chaff clouds is a wide sense stationary random process. For a jointly gaussian random process, second order statistics are developed from correlated samples of radar cross sections. Applicable statistical tests are performed to validate a set of generated samples. The goodness of fit of the samples compared to the prespecified density function is determined along with a comparison of the correlation coefficients from the generated set to the desired correlation coefficients. Rayleigh and Weibull statistics are also derived from gaussian variables to present an alternative way of describing the probability distributions of chaff cloud cross sections. Topics for further study are suggested. Keywords: Chaff simulation, Correlation techniques, Electronic countermeasures, Radar confusion reflectors, and Radar cross sections.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1985
Accession Number
ADA164106

Entities

People

  • Richard P. Fray

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

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Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computational Science
  • Computers
  • Data Science
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Electronic Countermeasures
  • Electronic Warfare
  • Engineering
  • Goodness Of Fit Tests
  • Information Processing
  • Information Science
  • Insensitive Explosives
  • Order Statistics
  • Probability Distributions
  • Radar
  • Radar Cross Sections
  • Random Variables
  • Scattering

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  • Statistical inference.

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics