Radar Reflectivity of Land and Sea 3e

This state-of-the-art edition of a radar classic brings you up-to-date on new developments in clutter measurement and modeling and features a wealth of new information not found in other currently available books. The book covers everything from basic concepts of radar reflectivity to space-time clutter amplitude and bistatic clutter.

Preface. Acknowledgments. Remote Sensing by Radar - State of the Art. Surface Effects and Emerging Techniques. Basic Concepts and Definitions - Radar Reflectivity. The Earth and Its Effects on Radar. Polarization, Depolarization and Theories of Scattering - Polarization and Depolarization. Theories for Radar Cross Section of Rough Surfaces. Effects of the Earth's Surface - Fundamental Concepts. Echo from Targets that are Above a Flat, Smooth Earth. Effects of Surface Roughness on Forward-Scattered Fields. Echo from Targets That Are Above a Physically Rough Earth. Multipath Effects on Echo from Land and Sea. Echo Fluctuations and Doppler Spectra - Introduction. Ground Echo Fluctuations. Visual Observations of Sea Echo. Sea Echo Statistics and Spectra. Space-Time Clutter Amplitude Statistics. Average and Median Cross Sections - Introduction. Radar Cross Section for Land. Radar Cross Section for Sea. Interdepence of Polarization Characteristics - Introduction. Echo from Land Principally Trees. Sea Echo. Bistatic Land and Sea Clutter - Bistatic RCS. Effective Illuminated Area. Depolarization and Reduction in RCS. In-Plane (? = 0 and 180?) Clutter. The Baron Model. Ulaby et al. Indoor Measurements.