Open AccessExample of scattering noise in radar data interpretation
Author(s) -
G.H. Canavan
Publication year - 1996
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/434321
Subject(s) - interpretation (philosophy) , radar , scattering , variance (accounting) , statistical physics , noise (video) , simple (philosophy) , physics , computational physics , geology , remote sensing , computer science , optics , artificial intelligence , telecommunications , philosophy , accounting , epistemology , business , image (mathematics) , programming language
Radar data interpretation typically assumes well behaved, known particle distributions. Those assumptions are at variance with the unknown angular scattering characteristics of the particles measured. This note gives a simple example of how those characteristics complicate data interpretation