Modelling Helicopter Radar Backscatter

Abstract

This paper presents a study on the simulation of the radar backscatter signal from a helicopter in which the helicopter rotors, the helicopter rotor hub and helicopter body are modelled by an ensemble of straight wires, rods and rectangular plates in various orientations. Despite the simplicity of exact solutions used here, which give a signi cant advantage of very low computational cost, very good agreement with real data can be achieved.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2011
Accession Number
ADA545676

Entities

People

  • C. Bourne
  • H. T. Tran
  • R. Melino

Organizations

  • Defence Science and Technology Group

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Airframes
  • Amplitude Modulation
  • Australia
  • Backscattering
  • Carrier Frequencies
  • Classification
  • Doppler Effect
  • Doppler Radar
  • Electronic Warfare
  • Frequency
  • Frequency Domain
  • Geometry
  • Helicopter Rotors
  • Scattering
  • Structural Components
  • Time Domain
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Aerodynamics.
  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Radar Systems Engineering.