Invariant characters on radar cross section of polarized radar targets

Author

Ke, Youan

Author_Institution

Beijing Inst. of Technol., China

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

626

Lastpage

631

Abstract

It is proved in this paper that for an arbitrary target at arbitrary aspect-angle the three average radar cross sections (RCS) for polarization matched radar, for common antenna radar, and for cross polarization radar, satisfy a simple proportional relation, i.e., 3:2:1. Here the average is the probability average, assuming that the radar transmitting polarization runs on the Poincare sphere with uniformly distributed probability density function

Keywords

Poincare mapping; electromagnetic wave polarisation; probability; radar antennas; radar cross-sections; radar target recognition; radar theory; transmitting antennas; Poincare sphere; RCS; common antenna radar; cross polarization radar; invariant characters; polarization matched radar; polarized radar targets; proportional relation; radar cross section; radar transmitting polarization; uniformly distributed probability density function; Electromagnetic measurements; Electromagnetic propagation; Electromagnetic scattering; Electromagnetic wave polarization; Matrix decomposition; Power measurement; Probability density function; Radar antennas; Radar cross section; Springs;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radar Conference, 2000. The Record of the IEEE 2000 International

Conference_Location

Alexandria, VA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5776-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RADAR.2000.851906

Filename

851906