Calibrated L-Band Terrain Measurements and Analysis Program - Results

Abstract

This report discusses the final year's activities of a program to generate and analyze L-band clutter data. The L-band radar data used throughout this study were derived from airborne synthetic aperture radar imagery. Radar cross section measurements from a variety of distributed targets are presented, including sea surface, sea ice, agricultural fields and forests. Both HH and VV polarized data are presented. Models are presented which describe the intensity distribution of SAR data as well as describe L-band scattering from rough surfaces. The density distribution models describe the observed SAR intensity distributions quite well, whereas the radar scattering models in some cases overpredict the SAR-observed values. Keywords: Radar; L-Band; Backscatter cross sections; Terrain; and Measurement.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1988
Accession Number
ADA196573

Entities

People

  • A. L. Maffett
  • E. S. Kasischke
  • R. W. Larson

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Communities of Interest

  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Data Science
  • Databases
  • Electromagnetic Radiation
  • Gaussian Distributions
  • Information Science
  • Measurement
  • Normal Distribution
  • Photographs
  • Radar
  • Regression Analysis
  • Scattering
  • Scatterometers
  • Side Looking Radar
  • Statistical Distributions
  • Surface Roughness
  • Surveys
  • Synthetic Aperture Radar

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  • Acoustical Oceanography.
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics.
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation