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Synthetic aperture radar imagery of airports and surrounding areas: philadelphia airport
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Onstott, Robert G. Gineris, Denise J. |
| Copyright Year | 1990 |
| Description | The statistical description of ground clutter at an airport and in the surrounding area is addressed. These data are being utilized in a program to detect microbursts. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data were collected at the Philadelphia Airport. These data and the results of the clutter study are described. This 13 km x 10 km scene was imaged at 9.38 GHz and HH-polarization and contained airport grounds and facilities (6 percent), industrial (14 percent), residential (14 percent), fields (10 percent), forest (8 percent), and water (33 percent). Incidence angles ranged from 40 to 84 deg. Even at the smallest incidence angles, the distributed targets such as forest, fields, water, and residential rarely had mean scattering coefficients greater than -10 dB. Eighty-seven percent of the image had scattering coefficients less than -17.5 dB. About 1 percent of the scattering coefficients exceeded 0 dB, with about 0.1 percent above 10 dB. Sources which produced the largest cross sections were largely confined to the airport grounds and areas highly industrialized. The largest cross sections were produced by observing broadside large buildings surrounded by smooth surfaces. |
| File Size | 2999224 |
| Page Count | 114 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19900009056 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t20c9vj5g |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1990-03-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Air Transportation And Safety Water Forests Statistical Analysis Environmental Quality Microbursts Meteorology Radar Data Backscattering Scattering Coefficients Airports Clutter Radar Imagery Synthetic Aperture Radar Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports ServerĀ (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Technical Report |