On the scattering mechanism of power lines at millimeter-waves

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1895-1903

  Essen, Helmut ^a   Boehmsdorff, Stephan ^a   Biegel, Gregor ^a   Wahlen, Alfred ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR HIGH FREQUENCY PHYSICS AND RADAR TECHNIQUES FHR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Millimeter waves; Modeling; Power lines; RCS; Synthetic aperture radar

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; COLLISION AVOIDANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC LINES; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; HELICOPTERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MILLIMETER WAVES; RADAR CROSS SECTION; REMOTE SENSING; SCANNING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

POWER LINES; SCANNING BEAM RADAR;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0036762723     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2002.805144     Document Type: Article

References (9)

1. H. Meinel, H. G. Wippich, B. Rembold, and W. F. Franck, "LPI-radar for helicopter obstacle warning," AGARD, Paris, France, AGARD NATO CP 359, 1984.
2. W. Armbruster and K.-H. Bers, "Three-dimensional obstacle classification in laser range data," in Proc. SPIE, vol. 3436, 1998, pp. 475-483.
3. B. Rembold, H. G. Wippich, M. Bischoff, and W. F. X. Frank, "A mm-wave collision warning sensor for helicopters," in Proc. Military Microwaves, 1982, pp. 344-351.
4. K. Sarabandi and M. Park, "Millimeter-wave radar phenomenology of power lines and a polarimetric detection algorithm," IEEE Trans. Adv. Packag., vol. 47, pp. 1807-1813, Dec. 1999.
5. G. A. Lindqvist. CADRCS simulation tool. CSS, Copenhagen, Denmark
6. H. Yamaguchi, A. Kajiwari, and S. Hayashi, "Radar cross section measurements for collision avoidance with power transmission line at millimeter-wave-frequencies," Proc. IEEE Radar Conf., pp. 148-153, 1999.
7. K. Sarabandi, L. Pierce, Y. Oh, and F. T. Ulaby, "Power lines radar measurements and detection algorithm for polarimetric SAR images," IEEE Trans. Aerosp. Electron. Syst., vol. 30, pp. 632-643, Apr. 1994.
8. S. Boehmsdorff and H. Essen, "MEMPHIS: An experimental platform for millimeter-wave radar," in DGON Int. Conf. on Radar, München, Germany, 1998.
9. H. Essen, S. Boehmsdorff, G. Biegel, and H. Schimpf, "Detection of power lines by millimeter-wave sar," in Proc. EUSAR2000, Munich, Germany, 2000.