Radar Reflectivity of Land and Sea
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Author(s): M. W. Long
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1580531539
Format: hardback
534pp
Price: £82.00
Review Date: 29 May 2001
Review: This latest edition gives up-to-date information on developments in clutter measurement and modelling. It looks at remote sensing by radar, polarisation and depolarisation and scattering theories, the effects of the Earth's surface, echo fluctuations and spectra, average and median cross-sections, the interdependence of polarisation characteristics, and bistatic land and sea clutter (a whole new chapter). The book has been thoroughly updated , and additions include: a historical survey of space-based radar observations, effects of frequency agility; spatial amplitude statistics; coherent Doppler spectra; super sea echo events; sea spikes; compound statistics for describing temporal and spatial amplitude variations, and models and tables of average radar cross-section for land and sea.