NIST delivers radar cross section standard artifacts to industry. (General Development).As part of a national effort to standardize radar cross section Radar cross section (RCS) describes the extent to which an object reflects an incident electromagnetic wave. It is a measure of the strength of the radar signal backscattered from a "target" object for a given incident wave power. (RCS (1) (Remote Computer Service) A remote timesharing service. (2) (Revision Control System) A Unix utility that provides version control. RCS - Revision Control System ) measurements, NIST (National Institute of Standards & Technology, Washington, DC, www.nist.gov) The standards-defining agency of the U.S. government, formerly the National Bureau of Standards. It is one of three agencies that fall under the Technology Administration (www.technology. delivered a set of standard precision cylinders to a private company in McKinney, Texas, in December 2002. The calibration artifacts artifacts see specimen artifacts. will be used to characterize the company's RCS measurement range from 2 GHz to 18 GHz. The diameters of the cylinders range from 3.75 in to 9.00 in, and their heights range from 1.75 in to 4.2 in. All the dimensional tolerances were determined to be [+ or -] 0.001 in. This cylinder set is the first in a series of precision artifacts that can be manufactured at NIST to support the RCS community's cooperative standards research program, with the objective of improving calibration data quality by developing new data acquisition and data analysis techniques. The standard cylinders can be made available to any RCS facility at cost. CONTACT: Lorant Muth, (303) 497-3603; muth@boulder.nist.gov. |
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