Some aspects about wind turbines as radar targets

Author

Suciu, Ioana ; Anton, Lucian ; Oroian, Teofil-Cristian ; Raicu, Razvan-Doru

Author_Institution

Commun. & Mil. Electron. Syst. Dept., Mil. Tech. Acad., Bucharest, Romania

fYear

2014

fDate

29-31 May 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

The radar signature of wind turbines determination has serious implications in the national security system, mostly in the case of maritime wind turbines and of those close to airports. The blades of the wind turbines cause reflections which may affect radar systems used by commercial and military facilities, radars for air defense, air traffic control radars, maritime navigation and those used for meteorological prediction and monitoring. The blades cause a Doppler effect while the nacelle and the tower may determine false plots.

Keywords

Doppler effect; air traffic control; airports; blades; marine navigation; meteorological radar; military radar; national security; radar tracking; target tracking; wind turbines; Doppler effect; air defense radars; air traffic control radar; airports; maritime navigation; maritime wind turbine blades; meteorological prediction; nacelle; national security system; radar signature; radar systems; radar target tracking; Blades; Doppler radar; Radar antennas; Radar cross-sections; Rotors; Wind turbines; RCS; radar; target; wind turbines;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications (COMM), 2014 10th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Bucharest

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICComm.2014.6866765

Filename

6866765