DocumentCode
873053
Title
Scattering by composite rough surfaces
Author
Beckmann, Petr
Author_Institution
University of Colorado, Boulder, Colo.
Volume
53
Issue
8
fYear
1965
Firstpage
1012
Lastpage
1015
Abstract
The paper investigates scattering by surfaces generated by a superposition of several random processes (such as swell plus sea plus ripple). Explicit expressions for the dependence of the mean scattered power on the scattering geometry and wavelength in terms of the scale roughness and the rms slope of the individual components are derived for bistatic scattering. The special case of backscattering is analyzed more closely, and the importance of the small structure of the surface is demonstrated.
Keywords
Backscatter; Geometry; Moon; Radar scattering; Random processes; Rough surfaces; Sea surface; Statistical distributions; Surface roughness; Vegetation mapping;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Proceedings of the IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0018-9219
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/PROC.1965.4081
Filename
1446011
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