Selection of Contributing Natural Poles for the Characterization of Perfectly Conducting Targets in Resonance Region

In the resonance region, the radar scattering response of any target can be modeled by natural poles, with the formalism of the singularity expansion method. The mapping of poles gives useful information for the discrimination of radar targets. In this paper, we show that a reduced number of natural poles is sufficient to characterize such objects. Furthermore, we propose a procedure for selecting the poles that actually contribute to the scattering response. Results are presented for various perfectly conducting (PC) canonical targets and for a PC complex shape target.

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