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Clutter modeling of the denver airport and surrounding areas
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Onstott, Robert G. Harrah, Steven D. Delmore, Victor E. |
| Copyright Year | 1991 |
| Description | To accurately simulate and evaluate an airborne Doppler radar as a wind shear detection and avoidance sensor, the ground clutter surrounding a typical airport must be quantified. To do this, an imaging airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) was employed to investigate and map the normalized radar cross sections (NRCS) of the ground terrain surrounding the Denver Stapleton Airport during November of 1988. Images of the Stapleton ground clutter scene were obtained at a variety of aspect and elevation angles (extending to near-grazing) at both HH and VV polarizations. Presented here, in viewgraph form with commentary, are the method of data collection, the specific observations obtained of the Denver area, a summary of the quantitative analysis performed on the SAR images to date, and the statistical modeling of several of the more interesting stationary targets in the SAR database. Additionally, the accompanying moving target database, containing NRCS and velocity information, is described. |
| File Size | 1408707 |
| Page Count | 54 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19910014839 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t0kt1m40z |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1991-01-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Air Transportation And Safety Meteorological Radar Statistical Analysis Data Acquisition Radar Cross Sections Imaging Radar Airports Radar Tracking Targets Clutter Radar Imagery Elevation Angle Data Bases Airborne Equipment Terrain Mathematical Models Doppler Radar Ground Effect Communications Wind Shear Synthetic Aperture Radar Quantitative Analysis Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports ServerĀ (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |