Download or read book Detection of Near-earth Targets by Space-based Radar: written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes a time-based computer simulation of a space-based radar (SBR) system. The simulator models the orbital dynamics of multiple radar satellites and the characteristics of the radar, and computes the clutter returns from the surface of the earth as a function of Doppler velocity. It then determines the theoretical detectability of a target of specified radar cross-section, location, and velocity at any given time. The simulator is used to carry out studies of the detection performance of a generic SBR system in a low-altitude polar orbit using near-earth targets in the presence of earth clutter. Results indicate the effects on detection performance of look direction and target latitude.