Radar Cross Section Handbook. Volume 2

Plenum, 1970. — 472 p.All you need to know about RCS from simple bodies as spheres and cylinders to more comples bodies, including roughness and ionised media. It includes all known analytical formulas, but also the procedures to compute the more comples bodies and the physical interpretation of the creeping waves. A forgotten masterpiece!This book may not make you an expert on radar cross section, but unless you work at the skunk works, you'll know more than anyone else in the room. Especially valuable is the last chapter on RCS measurements and coordinate systems. This explains how to translate from Tait-Bryan angles to rotation matrices. Be careful, because he uses the convention that body z-axis is forward, while dynamicists use x-forward, with either z-down, y-starboard or z-up and y-port.Lots of useful information, it is absolutely indespensible if you need to accurately use and interpert RCS data or make simple models.