Title :
Low grazing angle bistatic NRCS of forested clutter
Author :
McLaughlin, David J. ; Wu, Yaowu ; Raghavan, R.S.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Northeastern Univ., Boston, MA
fDate :
9/1/1994 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The authors present low grazing angle bistatic clutter measurements of forested hills at S-band. Mean NRCS is -36 dB for vertically polarised transmitter and receiver antennas and -42 dB for horizontally polarised antennas. Cross-sections increase by 3 dB after defoliation of the deciduous portion of the tree canopy
Keywords :
forestry; radar antennas; radar clutter; radar cross-sections; NRCS; S-band; cross-sections; deciduous tree canopy; defoliation; forested hills; horizontally polarised antennas; low grazing angle bistatic clutter; receiver antennas; transmitter antennas; vertically polarised antennas;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19941024
