Bistatic radar scattering by a chaff cloud

Author

Guo, Yanping ; Überall, Herbert

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys., Catholic Univ., Washington, DC, USA

Volume

40

Issue

7

fYear

1992

fDate

7/1/1992 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

837

Lastpage

841

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;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-926X

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/8.155750

Filename

155750