Calibrated L-Band Terrain Measurements and Analysis Program.

This report discusses the final year's activities of a program to generate and analyze L-band clutter data. The L-band radar data used throughout this study were derived from airborne synthetic aperture radar imagery. Radar cross section measurements from a variety of distributed targets are pr...

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Main Authors: Larson,R W, Kasischke,E S, Maffett,A L
Other Authors: ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INST OF MICHIGAN ANN ARBOR
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1987
Subjects:
Active & Passive Radar Detection & Equipment
Forestry
Snow
Ice and Permafrost
Physical and Dynamic Oceanography
*AGRICULTURE
*FORESTS
*RADAR CLUTTER
*RADAR CROSS SECTIONS
*ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING
*SEA ICE
*OCEAN SURFACE
DENSITY
DISTRIBUTION
MODELS
INTENSITY
L BAND
RADAR
POLARIZATION
MEASUREMENT
TERRAIN
TARGETS
SURFACE ROUGHNESS
RADAR SIGNALS
Ice
permafrost
Sea ice
Online Access:http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA182917
http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA182917
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Summary:This report discusses the final year's activities of a program to generate and analyze L-band clutter data. The L-band radar data used throughout this study were derived from airborne synthetic aperture radar imagery. Radar cross section measurements from a variety of distributed targets are presented, including sea surface, sea ice, agricultural fields and forests. Both HH and VV polarized data are presented. Models are presented which describe the intensity distribution of the SAR data as well as describe L-band scattering from rough surfaces. The density distribution models describe the observed SAR intensity distributions quite well, whereas the radar scattering models in some cases overpredict the SAR-observed values. (Author)

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