Potential Applications of Other-Radar Technology to Civil Marine Radar

Download or read book Potential Applications of Other-Radar Technology to Civil Marine Radar written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Military radar research and development has generated many techniques which have distinct possible application to civil marine radar. Developments such as pulse compression, ship imaging, and solid state radar to name a few, which were selected for both appropriateness and potential interest to the civil marine radar community, are presented without regard to the economics involved. Recent advances in sea clutter theory and its potential impact on marine radar design are also discussed. An apprendix is included which presents a summary of recent data on ship's cross section. It was found that the cross section in sq meters could be expressed as sigma = 52 (the square root of f) D to the 1.5 power, where f is the radar frequency in megahertz and D is the ship displacement in kilotons.