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The modern design of radar systems and the development of electromagnetic theory require experimental measurement of electromagnetic scattering. In the past, such measurements were done using instrumentation radars often located a mile or more from the target of interest [5.1]. This distance was necessary to allow a spherical wavefront to propagate to a distance where it approximated a plane wave over the target zone.
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Walton, E.K. (1994). The Measurement of Radar Cross Section. In: Boerner, WM., Überall, H. (eds) Radar Target Imaging. Springer Series on Wave Phenomena, vol 13. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-85112-4_5
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