Report on Scattering Physics of Multistatic Radar Sea Clutter

Abstract

This report presents work undertaken on Multistatic Radar Sea Clutter over the period October 2012 to April 2014. A number of topics have been addressed as follows: (1) NATO SET-185 is a research collaboration panel on sea clutter involving 9 nations. UCL has participated in collaborative work and meetings supported by this grant. (2) Low grazing angle sea clutter models. Differences between existing empirically derived models for average sea clutter backscatter have been investigated and compared with Propagation and EM scatter modeling. A number of potential explanations for the differences are proposed. (3) Multistatic radar measurement accuracy. The evaluation of measurement accuracy for a multistatic radar system is a difficult and complicated task. Work has been undertaken to derive a straightforward method, which is presented in this report.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 30, 2014
Accession Number
ADA604793

Entities

People

  • Hugh Griffiths
  • Keith Ward

Organizations

  • University College London

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Altitude
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Data Analysis
  • Databases
  • Detection
  • Diffraction
  • Electromagnetic Scattering
  • Geometry
  • Grazing Angles
  • Measurement
  • Multistatic Radar
  • Radar
  • Refraction
  • Refractive Index
  • Scattering

Readers

  • Acoustical Oceanography.
  • Regression Analysis.
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.