clutter matlab,Radar cross-section of volume clutter

Estimate the radar cross-section of rain for a side-looking airborne SAR operating in the L band at 1.5 GHz. The rain is specified by a range resolution of 15 m, an azimuth resolution of 18 m, and a rain elevation cell resolution of 20 m. The rain rates are 0.25 mm/hr, 1 mm/hr, 4 mm/hr, and 16 mm/hr.

f = 1.5e9;

rngres = 15;

azres = 18;

elres = 20;

res = [rngres azres elres];

rr = [0.25 1 4 16];

Compute the rain radar cross-section. Use rainreflectivity to compute the volume reflectivity of the scattering particles.

volref = rainreflectivity(f,rr);

rcs = clutterVolumeRCS(volref,res);

Plot the rain radar cross-section as a function of the rain rate. Express the cross-section in dB.

semilogx(rr,pow2db(rcs),'.-')

xlabel('Rain Rate (mm/hr)')

ylabel('Rain RCS (dBsm)')