Geometric Power Fall-Off in Radar Sounding.

This paper reports the analysis of the geometric power fall-off of Fresnel zone scattering in radar sounding. Radar sounders can take advantage of strong coherent scattering from Fresnel zones at nadir which grow with sensor altitude. The strength of the signal and the actual rate of power fall-off, however, depend heavily on the surface properties. We first use the radar equation to separate geom...