We have wrapped metallic cylinders with strongly absorbing metamaterials. These resonant structures, which are patterned on flexible substrates, smoothly coat the cylinder and give it an electromagnetic response designed to minimize its radar cross section. We compare the normal-incidence, small-beam reflection coefficient with the measurement of the far-field bistatic radar cross section of th...

Existing wind speed algorithms for satellite altimeters have been developed from data in the range 0 to 20 m/s. At higher wind speeds the available algorithms diverge alarmingly. By comparing Geosat altimeter values of the radar cross section with model predictions of the surface winds during satellite overpasses of tropical cyclones, a wind speed algorithm valid for wind speeds between 20 and ...

This report describes the analysis of results of a Lincoln Laboratory experiment which consisted of a series of bistatic scatter and radar measurements of the scattering cross section per unit volume of rain and thin turbulent layers. Results of tbe experiment are presented as average and rms values of the ~ of the bistatic scatter cross section as calculated using the radar data to the cross s...

In airborne and spaceborne radar remote sensing of clouds and precipitation, measurements of the sea surface normalized radar cross section σ are widely used to constrain and condition algorithms for the retrieval of atmospheric parameters. In the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission, the Path Integrated Attenuation (PIA) of the Ku-band Preciptitation Radar (PR) are estimated by comparing the su...