SADARM Captive Flight Tests: 35-GHz Ground-Based Radar System Measurements

Abstract

Search and Destroy Armaments (SADARM) winter captive flight tests were conducted in Grayling, Michigan, from 6-19 March 1990 to assess the performance of SADARM sensors flying over appropriate target sets in a winter background environment. Several target configurations were used in a variety of winter conditions, including both moving and stationary targets as well as clean and countermeasured targets and decays. Ground-based millimeter wave radar and infrared measurements made during the testing period provided data to increase our understanding of target-background interaction. This report contains the methods used to reduce and calibrate the ground-based 35-GHz radar data. Each scene imaged is described and a discussion is presented of the methods used to calculate the backscattered power and NRCS and to calibrate the radar.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1992
Accession Number
ADA252553

Entities

People

  • Joyce A. Nagle

Organizations

  • Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Captive Flight
  • Cold Regions
  • Computer Programs
  • Corner Reflectors
  • Detectors
  • Engineering
  • Flight
  • Frequency
  • Grazing Angles
  • Ground Based
  • Measurement
  • Mechanical Jamming
  • Millimeter Wave Radar
  • Millimeter Waves
  • Radar
  • Radiation
  • Radiation Patterns

Readers

  • Image Processing and Computer Vision.
  • Polar and Arctic Studies
  • ballistics.

Technology Areas

  • 5G