Complex target signature generation

This paper describes an approach to the simulation of radar signatures from large complex targets. The issue addressed is that given a subject radar target in the form of a geometrical design, is it possible to recognise redundancy in the electromagnetic radiation source which this target represents...

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Published in1996 3rd International Conference on Signal Processing : proceedings, October 14-18, 1996, Beijing, China Vol. 1; pp. 485 - 488 vol.1
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 1996
Subjects
Computational modeling
Electromagnetic scattering
Inverse synthetic aperture radar
Marine vehicles
Optical scattering
Radar cross section
Radar scattering
Radar signal processing
Solid modeling
Strips
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ISBN0780329120
9780780329126
DOI10.1109/ICSIGP.1996.567308

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Summary:This paper describes an approach to the simulation of radar signatures from large complex targets. The issue addressed is that given a subject radar target in the form of a geometrical design, is it possible to recognise redundancy in the electromagnetic radiation source which this target represents when illuminated by a radar? This is a key issue since the task of directly evaluating the signature is often so compute intensive as to prohibit its use in a simulator. The paper describes the results of some research into this using super-resolution inverse synthetic aperture radar methods. An example of generic ship geometry is used to illustrate the achievable performance, but it is stressed that the underlying message is in the importance of signal processing for reduced redundancy in simulation, rather than the specific nature of the example used.
ISBN:0780329120
9780780329126
DOI:10.1109/ICSIGP.1996.567308