Improvement of the Rayleigh Approximation for Scattering from a Small Scatterer

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 1995, Pages 681-688

  Karam, Mostafa A ^a   Stogryn, Alex ^a   LeVine, David M ^b   Antar, Yahia M M ^c  

^a AEROJET ROCKETDYNE   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CALCULATIONS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRIC LOSSES; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; INTEGRODIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PERMITTIVITY; TENSORS;

EQUIVALENT POLARIZABILITY TENSOR; RAYLEIGH APPROXIMATION; SMALL SCATTERER;

RAYLEIGH SCATTERING;

EID: 0029343925     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: 15582221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.391139     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. A. K. Ishimaru, Wave Propagation and Scattering in Random Media, vol. 1. New York: Academic, 1978.
2. L. Tsang, J. A. Kong, and R. T. Shin, Theory of Microwave Remote Sensing. New York: Wiley, 1985.
3. A. Stogryn, “Strong fluctuation theory for moist Granular media,” IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sensing, vol. GE-23, no. 2, pp. 78-83, 1985.
4. M. A. Karam and A. K. Fung, “Scattering from randomly oriented circular pp. discs with application to vegetation,” Radio Sci., vol. 18, no. 4, 557-565, 1983.
5. M. A. Karam and A. K. Fung, “Scattering from randomly oriented scatterers of arbitrary shape in the low frequency limit with application to vegetation,” Digest of Intr. Geosci. and Remote Sensing Symp. (IGARSS ’83), pp. 2.5.1-5.7, 1983.
6. M. A. Karam, “Remote sensing of random media with electromagnetic waves: A discrete approach,” Ph.D. dissertation, Univ. Kansas, Lawrence, 1984.
7. B. T. Drain, “The discrete-dipole approximation and its application to interstellar graphite grains,” Astrophys. J., vol. 333, pp. 848-872, 1988.
8. N. G. Khlebtsov, “Integral equation for problems of light scattering by particles of the medium,” Opt. Spectrosc., vol. 57, no. 4, pp. 399-402, 1984.
9. A. R. Holt, N. K. Uzunoglu, and B. G. Evans, “An integral equation solution to scattering of electromagnetic radiation by dielectric spheroids and ellipsoids,” IEEE Trans. Antennas Propagat., vol. AP-26, no. 5, pp. 706-711, 1978.
10. H. C. Van de Hulst, Light Scattering by Small Particles. New York: Dover, 1981.
11. J. A. Osborn, “Demagnetizing factors of general ellipsoid,” Phys. Rev., vol. 67, pp. 351-357, 1945.
12. K. M. Chen, “A simple physical picture of tensor Green’s function in source region,” Proc. IEEE, pp. 1202-1204, 1977.
13. A. D. Yaghjian, “Electric dyadic Green’s function in the source region,” Proc. IEEE, vol. 68, pp. 1202-1204, 1980.
14. A. Stogryn, “A note on the singular part of the dyadic Green’s function in the strong fluctuation theory,” Radio Sci., vol. 18, pp. 1283-1286, 1983.
15. M. A. Karam and A. K. Fung, “Vector forward scattering theorem,” Radio Sci., vol. 17, pp. 752-756, 1982.
16. M. A. Karam and A. K. Fung, “Electromagnetic energy absorbed within a Mie sphere,” J. Electromagnetic Waves and Appl., vol. 7, pp. 1379-1387, 1993.
17. N. V. Voshchinnikov and V. G. Farafonov, “Light scattering by dielectric spheroids, Part 1,” Opt. Spectrosc., vol. 58, no. 1, pp. 81-85, 1985.
18. M. Nieto-Vesperinas, Scattering and Diffraction in Physical Optics. New York: Wiley, 1991.
19. G. Tyras, Radiation and Propagation of Electromagnetic Waves. New York: Academic, 1969.