Accession Number:

AD0672764

Title:

DIFFERENT AND MORE DIRECT APPROACH TO THE INVERSE EDGE BACKSCATTERING PROBLEM

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

MITRE CORP BEDFORD MA

Personal Author(s):

• Tomljanovich, Nicholas M.

Report Date:

1968-04-01

Pagination or Media Count:

29.0

Abstract:

In a report R. M. Lewis has shown how the body motion and geometric parameters of an edge located on a torque-free axi-symmetric conducting body could be determined by knowing the short pulse backscattered cross sections of the isolated edge at two different polarizations as functions of time. The purpose of this report is to indicate another more direct and more practical approach to the inverse edge backscattering problem still utilizing the same measured data as Lewiss. The convenience of one approach over the other will become apparent in this paper.

Descriptors:

• *RADAR TARGETS
• BACKSCATTERING
• BODIES OF REVOLUTION
• ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION
• EQUATIONS OF MOTION
• KINEMATICS
• POLARIZATION
• RADAR CROSS SECTIONS

Subject Categories:

• Active and Passive Radar Detection and Equipment
• Radiofrequency Wave Propagation

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE