Journal of Aeronautics & Aerospace Engineering
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Department of Aeronautics, IIT Madras, Chennai, India

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• Editorial   
  Radar cross-section: An Overview
  Author(s): Srikanth Nuthanapati*
  
  The radar cross-section (RCS) is a measurement of how easily an object can be detected by radar. As a result, it's known as the object's electromagnetic signature. A higher RCS suggests that an object may be detected more easily. A limited quantity of radar radiation is reflected back to the source by an object. This is influenced by a number of things, including: the target's substance of construction; the target's size in relation to the illuminating radar signal's wavelength; the target's size in absolute terms; the incidence angle (the angle at which the radar beam strikes a specific region of the target, which is determined by the object's form and direction to the radar source); the reflected angle (the angle at which the reflected beam exits the part of the target that was hit; it is determined by the incident angle); polarisation of transmitted and .. View More»
  DOI: 10.35248/2168-9792.21.10.279

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