• DocumentCode
    1150993
  • Title

    Lens-Effect Loss for Distributed Targets

  • Author

    Shrader, W.W.

  • Author_Institution
    Raytheon CC-11 430 Boston Post Rd. Wayland, MA 01778
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    1987
  • fDate
    7/1/1987 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    594
  • Lastpage
    595
  • Abstract
    The atmosphere, acting like a lens, causes a small loss in radarsignal strength [1]. Unlike atmospheric absorption [2], the lenseffect loss is different for distributed targets versus point targets.For a distributed target uniformly filling the radar beam, the lens effect loss (in decibels) is one-half the lens-effect loss for point targets.
  • Keywords
    Absorption; Airborne radar; Aircraft; Antennas and propagation; Atmosphere; Filling; Lenses; Radar cross section; Refractive index; Sea level;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Aerospace and Electronic Systems, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9251
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TAES.1987.310894
  • Filename
    4104389
    • Link To Document
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