An exact expression for resolution cell area in special case of bistatic radar systems

Abstract

An exact expression for the bistatic resolution-cell area (A/sub B/) is developed for the special case in which either the transmit or receive antenna has a broad azimuth beamwidth or is omnidirectional. Quantitative examples are presented to illustrate the variation of A/sub B/ with location. A comparison is made with the performance of a commonly used approximation formula.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">&gt;</ETX>