Polarization-Based Radar Detection in Sea Clutter

Abstract

The goal of the proposed research is to characterize and model polarization-related behaviors of sea clutter and to use these models to develop and evaluate methods for radar detection/characterization of a target on the surface of the sea. The specific propagation phenomenology that is to be exploited in this new form of detection is termed polarization mode dispersion (PMD), which is characterized by a spread in the received signal polarization state versus the signal frequency components in the radar returns. PMD is traditionally not analyzed in radar returns, but the hypothesis is that knowledge of the PMD in the returns (which is embedded via distributed clutter and target reflections) contains new forms of information.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 27, 2015
Accession Number
ADA613789

Entities

People

  • Robert D. Kossler
  • Thomas G. Pratt

Organizations

  • University of Notre Dame

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Electronic Warfare
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computational Science
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Dielectric Permittivity
  • Diffraction
  • Doppler Effect
  • Electromagnetic Fields
  • Electromagnetic Radiation
  • Electromagnetic Scattering
  • Modulation
  • Multiple Input Multiple Output
  • Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing
  • Radar
  • Radio Frequency
  • Radio Frequency Devices
  • Signal Generators
  • Two Dimensional

Readers

  • Radar Systems Engineering.