Foliage Penetration Radar - Mark E Davis - Bog

Key Features * Ultrawideband waveform design and analysis including: methods for generating ultrawideband signals that do not interfere with emergency or flight safety frequencies; adaptive processing to reconstruct signals in a dense radio frequency interference environment. * Characteristics of clutter, foliage scattering, and propagation that affect the detection and characterization of vehicles, buildings and terrain features. * Specific studies into the benefits of: polarization for reduction of false alarms and characterizing vehicles under foliage; terrain features for land use cover characterization; generation of digital elevation maps for "bare earth" under the trees. * Image formation processing with an emphasis on use of real time high performance processing, change detection and automatic target detection and classification. * History of FOPEN with details of early systems that have only recently been released. * Advanced topics that provide additional uses of FOPEN systems including: simultaneous SAR and GMTI operation; bistatic SAR utilizing a FOPEN GMTI radar's waveform.