End-fire echo area of long, thin bodies
- 1 January 1958
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
- Vol. 6 (1) , 133-139
- https://doi.org/10.1109/tap.1958.1144544
Abstract
The echo area resulting from traveling waves excited on the surface of long, thin bodies is considered. A means of predicting this echo area on the basis of antenna theory is derived. Computed and measured values are compared for a long wire, an ogive, and a shorted polyrod.Keywords
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