Stealthy design of a compact range plane scanning frame

Author

Shaohui, Quan ; Guoye, He ; Yongbin, Xu

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Beijing Univ. of Aeronaut. & Astronaut., China

fYear

2003

fDate

Oct. 28 2003-Nov. 1 2003

Firstpage

381

Lastpage

384

Abstract

Through experimental study, backscatter characteristics of dihedral corner reflectors are studied. Both frequency and azimuth characteristics are discussed. On the other hand, effect of radar absorbing material (RAM) is verified. Based on all these experiments, a compact range (CR) plane scanning frame (PSF) system, which physical size is about 7.1 m high and 3 m wide, is designed and manufactured. The estimation of its radar cross section (RCS) is by one-dimensional (1-D) down-range imaging method. 1-D images prove that its RCS is less than 0 dBsm (1 m/sup 2/. It meets requirements of practical engineering very well and has been applied in a large CR performance testing successfully.

Keywords

antenna testing; backscatter; radar antennas; radar cross-sections; 3 m; 7.1 m; backscatter characteristics; compact range plane scanning frame; dihedral corner reflectors; radar absorbing material; radar cross section; Azimuth; Chromium; Frequency; Probes; Radar antennas; Radar cross section; Radar imaging; Scattering; Stability; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas, Propagation and EM Theory, 2003. Proceedings. 2003 6th International SYmposium on

Conference_Location

Beijing, China

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7831-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISAPE.2003.1276707

Filename

1276707