Unique calibration issues for bistatic radar reflectivity measurements

Author

Currie, Nicholas C. ; Alexander, Neal T. ; Tuley, Michael T.

Author_Institution

Rome Lab., U.S. Air Force, Rome, NY, USA

fYear

1996

fDate

13-16 May 1996

Firstpage

142

Lastpage

147

Abstract

This paper addresses the calibration of bistatic radar measurements performed on far field ground plane ranges. In a previous paper we developed an equation for calibrating bistatic radar cross section (RCS) measurements using monostatic calibration measurements. In this paper we express the error sources for bistatic calibration in terms of a standard for estimating radar measurement errors for monostatic systems issued in 1994 by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), to develop an equation for estimating absolute bistatic errors and perform an estimate of the accuracy of a modern RCS instrumentation system

Keywords

calibration; electromagnetic wave reflection; measurement errors; measurement standards; radar cross-sections; reflectivity; NIST; National Institute of Standards and Technology; RCS instrumentation system; RCS measurements; bistatic calibration; bistatic radar cross section; bistatic radar reflectivity measurements; error sources; far field ground plane ranges; monostatic calibration measurements; monostatic systems; radar measurement error estimation; Bistatic radar; Calibration; Equations; Instruments; Measurement standards; NIST; Performance evaluation; Radar measurements; Reflectivity; Standards development;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radar Conference, 1996., Proceedings of the 1996 IEEE National

Conference_Location

Ann Arbor, MI

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3145-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NRC.1996.510671

Filename

510671