Medeling of propagation of electromagnetic waves in forest media Application to detection and localization of targets

Author

Ziade, Youmni ; Nguyen, Huy ; Roussel, Helene ; Tabbara, Walid

Author_Institution

Dept. of Res. in Electromagn., SUPELEC, Rennes

Volume

2

fYear

0

fDate

0-0 0

Firstpage

2140

Lastpage

2145

Abstract

In this paper, we study the propagation of electromagnetic waves in forest media in UHF and VHF frequency bands. We propose a full wave coherent method that allows computing the electric field everywhere in the medium and for any kind of transmitting antenna. Using the data given by the model, we develop two methods in order to detect and localize a metallic target in the medium. The first one is based a monostatic SAR imaging algorithm, the second one is based on a DORT method associated with MUSIC algorithm

Keywords

UHF devices; VHF devices; electromagnetic wave propagation; radar imaging; synthetic aperture radar; target tracking; transmitting antennas; DORT method; MUSIC algorithm; UHF frequency bands; VHF frequency bands; electric field computing; electromagnetic waves propagation; forest media; monostatic SAR imaging algorithm; target detection; target localization; transmitting antenna; Dielectrics; Diffraction; Electromagnetic modeling; Electromagnetic propagation; Electromagnetic scattering; Frequency; Multiple signal classification; Radar scattering; Transmitting antennas; UHF propagation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information and Communication Technologies, 2006. ICTTA '06. 2nd

Conference_Location

Damascus

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9521-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTTA.2006.1684734

Filename

1684734