File Format | PDF
File Size | 6.85 MB
Pages | 307
Language | English
Category | Electronics
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Description: A necessary
reference for all radar engineers or analysts including many levels of
managers, advisors and decision makers in the U.S. and worldwide radar
industry. Directly useful in both military (DOD) and civilian (FAA)
applications. The result of 20 years of research at MIT Lincoln Lab, this book
is of the most significant tehcnological consequence for the industry. It
actually solves the problem of low angle radar land clutter by showing the
reader how to design and predict the performance of radars that operate in
situations where land clutter prevalent.
Radar land
clutter constitutes the unwanted radar echoes returned from the earth's surface
that compete against and interfere with the desired echoes returned by targets
such as aircraft and other moving and stationary targets. The ability to
accurately predict the effects of land clutter in surface radar has been an
unsolved problem for many years. This book is comprehensive in addressing the
topic, containing many interrelated results, each important in its own right.
It unifies and integrates all the results so as to create a comprehensive,
innovative, and unequaled work.
The results of
this book directly enable the reader to predict land clutter effects in surface
radar. Modern military aircraft deliberately fly low to hide their presence
from radars that are also dealing with land clutter. Depending on the terrain,
the performance of the radar varies greatly from very good to very poor. This
book helps radar engineers provide accurate assessments of ground clutter, thus
bringing their ability to detect and operate against low flying aircraft to a
much higher and much more consistent level.
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Low-Angle Radar Land Clutter: Measurements and Empirical Models