The aim of this work is to present radar cross section (RCS) measurements of a panel constituted of a flat aluminum plate with and without radar absorbing materials (RAM) type thin rubber sheets, in the range of 8 – 12 GHz. Two different loads were evaluated in the RAM formulation: 1. Magnetic (ferrites MnZn, NiZn and MgZn based), and 2. Dielectric (conducting polymers polyaniline based). The m...

Passive radar is a rapidly emerging technology with many distinct advantages over traditional radar. Its exploitation of “illuminators of opportunity” renders it covert, as well as less expensive. Several passive radar systems, such as Lockheed Martin’s Silent Sentry and John Sahr’s Manastash Ridge Radar at the University of Washington, are already capable of detecting and tracking aircraft. Ou...

Rather than emitting pulses, passive radar systems rely on illuminators of opportunity, such as TV and FM radio, to illuminate potential targets. These systems are particularly attractive since they allow receivers to operate without emitting energy, rendering them covert. Many existing passive radar systems estimate the locations and velocities of targets. This paper focuses on adding an autom...

The Radar Cross Section of a target plays an important role in the detection of targets by radars‎. ‎This paper presents a new method to predict the bistatic and monostatic RCS of coated electrically large objects. ‎The bodies can be covered by lossy electric and/or magnetic Radar Absorbing Materials (RAMs)‎. ‎These materials can be approximated by the Fresnel reflection coefficients‎. ‎The pro...

This paper focuses on the reduction of radar cross section (RCS) for a cavity embedded in an infinite ground plane. By introducing a transparent boundary condition, the unbounded scattering problem is reduced to a bounded domain problem. RCS reduction for the cavity is formulated as a shape optimization problem involving the Helmholtz equation. The existence of the minimizer is proved under an ...

The results of a numerical investigation of the electromagnetic scattering from two-dimensional (2-D) targets on a time-evolving sea surface are presented. The 2-D radar cross section (RCS), or “echo width,” is computed as a function of time as the sea surface evolves linearly using the spectrally accelerated generalized forward-backward method. It is shown that the RCS varies with time on the ...

This paper presents a new and original approach for computing the high-frequency radar cross section (RCS) of complex radar targets in real time with a 3-D graphics workstation. The aircraft is modeled with I-DEAS solid modeling software using a parametric surface approach. High-frequency RCS is obtained through physical optics (PO), method of equivalent currents (MEC), physical theory of diffr...

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 this paper, the effect of receive and/or transmit antenna spacing on the performance (BER vs. SNR) of multipleantenna systems is determined by using an RCS (Radar Cross Section) channel model. In this physical model, the scatterers existing in the propagation environment are modeled by their RCS so that the correlation of the receive signal complex amplitudes, i.e., both magnitude and phase,...

A novel broadband design of a printed dipole antenna using PBG (photonic band-gap) structures is proposed and studied in the electromagnetic scattering. The high surface impedance and a frequency gap are used to reduce RCS (radar cross section) across needed frequency range (3.7–4.5 GHz). Because the high surface impedance restrains the surface waves, the obtained results show that RCS is reduc...