Uncertainties in certain features of target geometries result in a loss of confidence in the signature assessment of the target. Knowledge of the impact to a target’s radar cross section (RCS) due to changes to specific target features can assist to identify whether uncertainty in a certain target feature warrants a loss of confidence in the target signature. This study will allow a development...

An approximate method to compute rough estimates of the broadside radar return from axially symmetric ionized gas columns is presented and applied to an illustrative example The method uses a continuum approach and takes into account the electron-neuti al collision frequency and both axial and radial variation of electron density The local reflectivity is determined as a function of axial posit...

1. Introduction National Weather Service (NWS) operates a network of about 160 Weather Surveillance Radars WSR-88D, where D stands for Doppler and the numbers indicate the year of production. A frequency band from 2700 to 3000 MHz has been assigned for the radar carrier frequencies (S-band) corresponding to the wavelengths from 10 to 11.1 cm. Carrier frequencies of adjacent WSR-88D radars are o...

[1] The relationship between microwave imaging radar measurements of fluid velocities in the surf zone and shoaling, breaking, and broken waves is studied with field observations. Normalized radar cross section (NRCS) and Doppler velocity are estimated from microwave measurements at near-grazing angles, and in situ fluid velocities are measured with acoustic Doppler velocimeters (ADVs). Joint h...

Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar (ISAR) is a powerful radar processing technique which is capable of two and three dimensional high resolution image generation of the target. ISAR image is often regarded as an adequate and sufficient measure to discriminate between various targets like missiles, military aircraft and civilian aircrafts. However, if the target has complicated motion such as pitc...

A two-dimensional form of cross-covariance function between the radar radialand tangential-components (with respect to the direction of radar beam) of background wind errors is derived. Like the previously derived auto-covariance function for the radial-component, this cross-covariance function is homogeneous but non-isotropic in the horizontal. The autoand cross-covariance functions are used w...

A two-dimensional form of cross-covariance function between the radar radialand tangential-components (with respect to the direction of radar beam) of background wind errors is derived. Like the previously derived auto-covariance function for the radial-component, this cross-covariance function is homogeneous but non-isotropic in the horizontal. The autoand cross-covariance functions are used w...

Computer apparition plays the most important role in human perception, which is limited to only the visual band of the electromagnetic spectrum. The need for Radar imaging systems, to recover some sources that are not within human visual band, is raised. This paper present new algorithm for Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images segmentation based on thresholding technique. Entropy based image t...