Troposcatter Deviation Losses Study for OTH Microwave Propagation

Microwave over-the-horizon propagation via troposcatter mechanism is a valuable candidate for passive sensing of remote radiation source applications, e.g., electronic reconnaissance. The result from the misalignment between target emitting and the system receiving antenna, the additional deviation losses in azimuthal and elevation angle are indispensable to model the receiving antenna pattern as well as the arrival scattering signal level. Based on the scatter transfer function, the deviation losses are derived assuming Gaussian antenna patterns and verified by existing measured data from the 1950s. Finally, potential application values of the deviation losses in electronic reconnaissance are provided.