Ultra-Wideband Radar Measurements over Bare, Snow-Covered and Pancake Ice.

Abstract

An ultra-wideband radar and a plane wave antenna have been used to measure the high resolution scattering response of bare saline ice, snow covered ice and pancake ice during the winter seasons of 1994 and 1995 at the US Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL). The objectives of these experiments were to study various mechanisms for simulating roughness and to understand scattering mechanisms better. These backscatter measurements were made at 2-18 GHz and 0.5-16.5 GHz during the 1994 and 1995 experiments respectively, and were made for incidence angles ranging from 0 to 55 deg. These broadband measurements provide a vigorous test for models at many frequencies using a single system instead of many single frequency systems.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1997
Accession Number
ADA327820

Entities

People

  • John Young
  • K. Jezek
  • L. Peters
  • P. Kanagaratnam
  • Sandeep Gogineni

Organizations

  • University of Kansas

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Backscattering
  • Bandwidth
  • Broadband
  • Cold Regions
  • Dielectric Permittivity
  • Engineering
  • Frequency
  • Frequency Bands
  • Frequency Response
  • High Resolution
  • Incoherent Scattering
  • Measurement
  • Plane Waves
  • Radar
  • Remote Sensing
  • Roughness
  • Scattering

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Atmospheric Remote Sensing.
  • Atmospheric Science / Meteorology, specifically Wind Wave Turbulence.
  • Electromagnetic Wave Scattering and Antenna Radiation Engineering