Comparison of numerical and analytical solutions for radar cross sections of random rough surfaces with full wave solutions

Author

Bahar, E. ; Crittenden, P.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nebraska Univ., Lincoln, NE, USA

Volume

1

fYear

1998

fDate

21-26 June 1998

Firstpage

104

Abstract

New unified full wave solutions for the horizontally and vertically polarized backscatter cross sections of random rough surfaces are compared with published numerical and analytical solutions. For the purpose of these comparisons the (one dimensionally) rough surface height autocorrelation functions are assumed to be Gaussian, the medium below the rough interface is assumed to be perfectly conducting. For the full wave analysis, the rough surface is regarded as an ensemble of patches of random rough surfaces with arbitrary orientations and the total backscatter cross section is obtained by averaging over the random slopes of the ensemble of patches. It is shown that the full wave results for the backscatter cross section remain stationary over a wide range of patch sizes.

Keywords

Gaussian processes; backscatter; correlation methods; electromagnetic wave polarisation; integral equations; radar cross-sections; random processes; rough surfaces; Gaussian functions; analytical solution; backscatter cross section; backscatter cross sections; full wave solutions; height autocorrelation functions; horizontal polarization; integral equation; numerical solution; patch sizes; radar cross sections; random rough surfaces; random slopes; vertical polarization; Autocorrelation; Backscatter; Hafnium; Polarization; Probability density function; Radar cross section; Radar scattering; Rough surfaces; Surface roughness; Surface waves;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 1998. IEEE

Conference_Location

Atlanta, GA, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4478-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.1998.699085

Filename

699085