Sea Clutter

Abstract

This report summarizes and appraises the present state of knowledge in the field of radar sea clutter. Specific topics include the empirical dependence of sea clutter on wind speed, grazing angle, and frequency; the sea clutter spectrum; and the effects of environmental agencies such as rain and surface contaminants. The strengths and weaknesses of the various theories of sea scatter are discussed with a view to establishing the quality of our present understanding of sea clutter. (rh)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 28, 1990
Accession Number
ADA227746

Entities

People

  • Lewis B. Wetzel

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Bandwidth
  • Birds
  • Boundary Layer
  • C Band
  • Diffraction
  • Doppler Effect
  • Environmental Pollutants
  • Grazing Angles
  • Low Angles
  • Measurement
  • Microwave Frequency
  • Military Research
  • Oceans
  • Probability Distributions
  • Radar
  • Radar Clutter
  • Scattering

Readers

  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers
  • Phased Array Antenna Design.
  • Systems Analysis and Design