When one thinks of clutter, the tendency is to think of excessive materials that need to be discarded. Clutter is typically thought of as “junk” that is taking up space or creating an environment that ...

You may hear us talking about “clutter” on the radar from time to time. Clutter or ground clutter is a common phenomenon that most radars experience. In the picture, clutter is in the red box and rain ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — You may have noticed activity showing up on radar before, then looked outside and saw nothing but sunshine. This is common, especially at a doppler radar site. This is known as ...

Preceding chapters enable the echo strength reaching the radar from passive or active targets to be calculated in presence of precipitation and in the various sea conditions. In this chapter we ...

McCLELLAN PARK, Calif., 12 July 2016. Military microelectronics experts at Lockheed Martin Corp. are upgrading electronic components in the AN/TPQ-53 fire-control radar to improve the system's ...

This chapter covers what happens to the transmitted pulse after it leaves the antenna and travels through the atmosphere until part of it is scattered back to the radar. The echo signal that enters ...

Adaptive signal detection in sea clutter addresses the challenge of identifying genuine targets—such as small vessels or floating objects—amid the complex and rapidly varying backscatter from the ...

Ground clutter may sound more like my son's messy room than a weather word, but it can be just as frustrating. Not everything that shows up on weather radar is actually weather. Sometimes, what looks ...