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Design of Passive-Type Radar Reflector

  • Yim, Jeong-Bin (Division of Maritime Transportation System, Mokpo National Maritime University) ;
  • Kim, Woo-Suk (Division of Maritime Transportation System, Mokpo National Maritime University)
  • Published : 2003.08.01
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Abstract

This paper describes design method of Passive-type Radar Reflector (PRR) which is to provide the requirement of newly revised 2000 SOLAS regulations on the Radar Reflector. The main target of this work is to find the optimum shape of a radar target having large Radar Cross Section (RCS). Through the RCS analysis based on the theoretical approach, two kinds of PRR models, RRR-F model for use in fisheries and PRR-S model for use in small sized ship, are designed and discussed their RCS performance. RCS measurement tests for the various sized samples are carried out in an anechoic chamber. As evaluation results it was clearly shown that the conventional sphere-type shows optimum shape in case of PRR-S, while the cylinder-type which consists of large sized corner clusters or zig-zag flat plats gives best performance in case of PRR-F.

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