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IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
Volume 46 Number 5, May 1998

Spherical Wave Near-Field Imaging and Radar Cross-Section Measurement

Page 730.

Abstract:

The paper presents a new inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR) algorithm intended for radar cross-section (RCS) imaging and measurement from scattered fields. The method, based on a spherical-wave near-field illumination of the target, overcomes the requirement for an expensive compact range facility to produce a plane wave illumination. The formulation and the implementation of the algorithm are described. Some experimental results obtained in an anechoic chamber are presented to show RCS results similar to the conventional plane wave methods.

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