A Comparison between Modeled and Measured ZSU 23-4 at 35 GHz

Abstract

In recent years several powerful RCS modeling codes like Xpatch (US), RAPPORT (NL), Fermat (FR) or FACETS (UK) have been developed. Their medium and long term goal is to replace tower/turntable measurements on real targets. The advantages of applying RCS modeling codes are many: one does not need the real target, the logistics are much easier, above all, modifications of the target can be accommodated easily, be it the geometry, material properties, or camouflage measures. Thus, all different types of RCS reduction can be implemented and their effects studied. On the other hand, there are still several shortcomings: it is still not clear which degree of fidelity is necessary for the facet model that describes the target shape. Many different material parameters like dielectric constants and conductivities have to be taken into account. Geometrical imperfectness (angular deviations, surface roughness) has to be considered. The latter becomes the more important the closer the dimensions are to the wavelength. Due to all these effects the present situation is such that one cannot yet fully trust modeling results when applied to problems like "automatic target recognition" (ATR), especially the training of ATR algorithms. Rather, it is still of great importance to compare the modeling results to real high resolution measurements (e.g. tower / turntable) in order to verify their accuracy or to identify any shortcomings. For the present analysis, the Dutch RCS modeling code RAPPORT was used on a 600,000 facet model of the ZSU 23-4 air defense tank, provided by ARL /xxxARL/. The computations were performed simultaneously at TNO and at FGAN, the results of different aspect angle intervals combined afterwards. For comparison, an ISAR tower/turntable measurement of the same target, also performed by ARL was used.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 2005
Accession Number
ADA471689

Entities

People

  • Bert Van Den Broek
  • Hartmut Schimpf
  • Tanja Bicker

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Defense
  • Algorithms
  • Aspect Angle
  • Cross Correlation
  • Data Sets
  • Doppler Effect
  • Frequency
  • High Resolution
  • Materials
  • Millimeter Waves
  • Operating Systems
  • Recognition
  • Reliability
  • Scattering
  • Statistics
  • Surface Roughness
  • Target Recognition

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP).
  • Radar Systems Engineering.