Title :
Bistatic radar scattering by a chaff cloud
Author :
Guo, Yanping ; Überall, Herbert
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys., Catholic Univ., Washington, DC, USA
fDate :
7/1/1992 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The bistatic radar scattering cross section of a chaff cloud is investigated in the ground-based system for arbitrarily polarized transmitters and receivers. The chaff cloud considered consists of a large number of identical thin conducting wires whose thickness is very small compared to their length and to the wavelength. Numerical results for bistatic cross sections for the cases of orientations uniform in azimuth and Gaussian in elevation, and also for uniformly random orientation in both azimuth and in elevation are presented in the form of three-dimensional graphs, for a few typical examples
Keywords :
electromagnetic wave scattering; radar cross-sections; arbitrarily polarised receivers; arbitrarily polarized transmitters; bistatic radar scattering cross section; chaff cloud; ground-based system; thin conducting wires; uniformly random orientation; Anisotropic magnetoresistance; Bistatic radar; Boundary conditions; Clouds; Electromagnetic scattering; Finite difference methods; Radar countermeasures; Radar scattering; Surface impedance; Time domain analysis;
Journal_Title :
Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Transactions on
