DU Rui, FAN Yang-yu, WANG Jian-shu. Theoretical Analysis and Experimental Study of Attenuation at Millimeter Wave Frequency by Water-Based Medium Radome[J]. Acta Electronica Sinica, 2017, 45(9): 2143-2148.
DU Rui, FAN Yang-yu, WANG Jian-shu. Theoretical Analysis and Experimental Study of Attenuation at Millimeter Wave Frequency by Water-Based Medium Radome[J]. Acta Electronica Sinica, 2017, 45(9): 2143-2148. DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.0372-2112.2017.09.013.
The attenuation at millimeter wave frequencies due to water contamination within a radar system is investigated in this paper.A model consisting of four layers of a potential contaminant is adopted in order to simulate the scattering behavior when water deposits are present with a radome.An attenuation parameter based on the Fresnel principle is proposed at 150GHz and 298GHz
which is supported by measurements that are obtained from pure water experiments.The attenuation due to realistic water-based contaminants in a typical outdoor environment
such as rain water
is measured and analyzed; furthermore
attenuations through sea water with different salinity is measured and analyzed.The experimental results show that the attenuation produced by radome water deposits increases with water thickness and this attenuation is not heavily dependent on the particles
such as dirt and salt
within the water-based liquid.The results presented are important in determining the feasibility of millimeter wave radar devices in realistic outdoor environments.