Electromagnetic modelling may be used as a tool for understanding the radar cross section (RCS) of volant animals. Here, we examine this emerging method in detail and delve deeper into specifics process single noctuid moth, with hope illuminating importance different aspects by varying morphometric compositional properties model. This was accomplished creating high-fidelity three-dimensional in...

Radar target identification using decision-theoretic distance based methods have long been used for classifying unknown non-cooperative radar targets using their Radar Cross Section (RCS). This study revisits this subj ect using the recently developed Large Margin Nearest Neighbor (LMNN) technique in addition to other traditional nearest neighbor methods. Radar target recognition has been defin...

In June 2008, during the T44 swath, the Cassini SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) observed sinuous channels in the South-west of the Xanadu region (Fig. 1 and 2). Some parts of these channels exhibit very large radar cross-sections, up to 5 dB whereas the angle of incidence was ~20°. This is larger than allowed by the coherent backscatter model considered to explain the unusual reflective and pola...

This effort continues a study of the effects of rain, over the oceans, on the signal retrieved by the SeaWinds scatterometer. It is determined that the backscatter radar cross section can be used to estimate the volumetric rain rate, averaged horizontally, across the surface resolution cells of the scatterometer. The dual polarization of the radar has a key role in developing this capability. T...

Multiscale composite models based on the Bragg theOly are widely used to study the U1LlI<,,'l~"~' radar cross-section (NRCS) over the sea sllrface. However, these models are able to correctly reproduce the NRCS in ail configurations and wind wave conditions. have developed a physical model that takes into account, not only the Bragg nisl11, but also the non-Bragg scattering l11echanisl11 associ...

Since many years Doppler radar profilers are known as valuable tools to retrieve profiles of rain rate and further rain parameters (e.g. Wakasugi et al. (1986)). Applying well established relations for terminal fall velocity, shape and backscatter cross section of rain drops allows to derive rain rate without empirical assumptions. For calculating the backscatter cross section, the flattening o...