Date of Award
1996
Document Type
Thesis
Publication Status
Version of Record
Submission Date
October 2026
Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]
De Groff, Dolores F.
Abstract
This thesis is concerned with the use of ultra-wideband radar detection specific to the following target and background considerations. (1) Statistical attributes of the RCS models of stealth-targets illuminated by ultra-wideband radars. (2) Analysis of radar echo signatures of low flying stealth-targets with a background of sea-clutter and illuminated by an ultra-wideband radar. (3) Analysis of impulse echoes from simple (planar) surface(s) coated with a radar absorbing material (RAM). The first problem refers to the elucidation of Swerling-Marcum type classifications of RCS fluctuation(s) to characterize the stochastical aspects of the echoes from stealth-targets illuminated by an impulse from an ultra-wideband radar. In the second analysis, performance of a radar receiver configuration, using the log-likelihood function of the signal received from a stealth target flying at low altitude over the sea-surface is predicted. The third effort addressed provides analytical representations in time-domain of echoes from planar surface(s) coated with RAM's for normal incidence of ultra-wideband short pulse illumination.
Extent
143 p.
Recommended Citation
Mendivil, Edwin David, "Studies on carrier-free (or ultra-wideband) radar performance under clutter and stealth-target environments" (1996). Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1990 - 1999. 1017.
https://digitalcommons.fau.edu/etd_general_4/1017
Identifier
FADT15278
Comments
College of Engineering and Computer Science|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Thesis (M.S.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1996.|College of Engineering and Computer Science