Title :
Another surface scattering model for bistatic scattering
Author :
Liu, W.Y. ; Fung, A.K. ; Chen, K.S.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Texas Univ., Arlington, TX, USA
Abstract :
In the development of the IEM model for surface single scattering a simplifying assumption was applied to the phase of the Green´s function in the average power calculation leading to a surface scattering model in algebraic form. We remove this assumption yielding a more complex model but still in algebraic form. We show that the simplifying assumption used in the past does not cause an appreciable difference in forward and backscattering directions. However, for different incident and scatter directions there is a noticeable difference especially when the surface roughness is small and scattering is weak. For surfaces with large root mean square height the difference between the original IEM and the new IEM is generally small
Keywords :
electromagnetic wave scattering; microwave propagation; radar theory; Green function; IEM model; average power calculation; bistatic scattering; scattering surfaces; surface roughness; surface scattering model; surface single scattering; Antennas and propagation; Backscatter; Integral equations; Polarization; Receiving antennas; Root mean square; Rough surfaces; Scattering; Surface roughness;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2001. IGARSS '01. IEEE 2001 International
Conference_Location :
Sydney, NSW
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7031-7
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2001.978205