Electromagnetic signals that propagate through strongly disturbed regions of the ionosphere can experience scattering which can cause significant amplitude, phase, and angle-of-arrival fluctuations. This paper considers the performance of a space based radar (SBR) that must operate through a highly disturbed propagation environment such as might occur during a barium release or after a high altitude nuclear detonation. A brief summary of the propagation channel characteristics is given in terms of quantities that are important to SBR design issues. Results are then given showing the effect of noncoherent integration on target detection performance. Both coherent and noncoherent detection performance can be seriously degraded by scintillation if scintillation is not adequately considered in the radar design.


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    Title :

    The Impact of Strong Scintillation on Space Based Radar Design II: Noncoherent Detection


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    Publication date :

    1986-01-01


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    2687264 byte




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English