RCS OF AN OBJECT INCLINED TO A GROUND PLANE

This paper concerns the RCS of an object over a perfectly conducting g round plane or a lossy dielectric such as sea water. We use physical o ptics to compute reflections from objects made up of flat surfaces. We identify seven different paths for the reflected rays. They include s ingle and double reflections from the object and the ground plane. We compare our results with results based upon moment-method-based codes such as NEC (Numerical Electromagnetic Code) and JUNCTION. (C) 1998 Jo hn Wiley & Sons, Inc.