Reconstruction of Polygonal Cylindrical Targets with Curved Surfaces from Their Monostatic RCS

Hiroshi SHIRAI
Yoshinori HIRAMATSU
Masashi SUZUKI

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics   Vol.E88-C    No.12    pp.2289-2294
Publication Date: 2005/12/01
Online ISSN: 
DOI: 10.1093/ietele/e88-c.12.2289
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Wireless Technologies and Computational Electromagnetics)
Category: Imaging
Keyword: 
monostatic RCS,  radar cross section,  GTD,  inverse scattering,  equivalent source method,  

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Summary: 
Target reconstruction algorithm from its monostatic radar cross section (RCS) has been proposed for polygonal cylinders with curved surfaces. This algorithm is based on our previous finding that the main contribution to the back scattering is due to edge diffracted fields excited at a facet of nearly specular reflection direction. Dimension of this constitutive facet of the target is estimated from the local maxima and its lobe width in the angular RCS variation. Half and quarter circular cylinders are used as canonical scattering objects, and their measured and numerically simulated monostatic RCS values have been studied extensively to find scattering pattern characteristic difference between flat and circularly curved surfaces. Thus estimated constitutive facets are connected in order, and this procedure will be continued until the distance between the first and the final edges would be minimized. Our algorithm has been tested for other targets, and it is found that it works well for predicting metal convex targets with flat and curved facets.