UWB Radar Holography Applied to RCS Signature Reduction of Military Vehicles
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Begun in 1973, the Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation (QNDE) is the premier international NDE meeting designed to provide an interface between research and early engineering through the presentation of current ideas and results focused on facilitating a rapid transfer to engineering development.
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Ultra wide band (UWB) radar holography is a unique technique developed at PNNL for the U. S. Army to obtain nearfield“3-D” images and scattering characteristics of full-size vehicles in the field and at production line facilities. The extremely high-resolution imaging capability of this technique maps a vehicle’s scattering areas and identifies the“hot spots” which dominate the far-field signature to the enemy’s radar receiver. The combination of generating near-field high resolution images and RCS measurements with the same data provides a very efficient LO signature reduction tool for the Army, Air Force and Navy.