It is shown that weather radar signal averaging causes a broadened apparent pattern of the scanning radar antenna. The apparent pattern is obtained by convolving the original pattern with the averaging circuit impulse response. Echo displacement and pattern broadness are examined for square law, linear, and logarithmic detectors having exponential and finite time integrators.
Effective Antenna Pattern of Scanning Radars
IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems ; AES-12 , 5 ; 551-555
1976-09-01
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