Accession Number:

ADA604793

Title:

Report on Scattering Physics of Multistatic Radar Sea Clutter

Descriptive Note:

Final rept. 1 Oct 2011-30 Sep 2013

Corporate Author:

UNIVERSITY COLL LONDON (UNITED KINGDOM)

Personal Author(s):

• Griffiths, Hugh
• Ward, Keith

Report Date:

2014-05-30

Pagination or Media Count:

23.0

Abstract:

This report presents work undertaken on Multistatic Radar Sea Clutter over the period October 2012 to April 2014. A number of topics have been addressed as follows 1 NATO SET-185 is a research collaboration panel on sea clutter involving 9 nations. UCL has participated in collaborative work and meetings supported by this grant. 2 Low grazing angle sea clutter models. Differences between existing empirically derived models for average sea clutter backscatter have been investigated and compared with Propagation and EM scatter modeling. A number of potential explanations for the differences are proposed. 3 Multistatic radar measurement accuracy. The evaluation of measurement accuracy for a multistatic radar system is a difficult and complicated task. Work has been undertaken to derive a straightforward method, which is presented in this report.

Descriptors:

• *GRAZING ANGLES
• *RADAR
• *SCATTERING
• *SEA CLUTTER
• ACCURACY
• BACKSCATTERING
• ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING
• MODELS
• PROPAGATION
• REFLECTIVITY

Subject Categories:

• Theoretical Mathematics
• Active and Passive Radar Detection and Equipment

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE