Scattering of a pulsed beam by a random medium over ground

Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 481-516

  Kilic, Ozlem ^a   Lang, Roger H ^b  

^a LOCKHEED MARTIN   (United States)

^b The George Washington University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CALCULATIONS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; RADAR SYSTEMS; RECEIVING ANTENNAS; WAVE EQUATIONS;

APERTURE ANTENNA; DISTORTED BORN APPROXIMATION; GAUSSIAN BEAM; NARROWBAND SHORT PULSE; PENCIL BEAM REPRESENTATION; PULSED BEAM;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING;

EID: 0034967758     PISSN: 09205071     EISSN: 15693937     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156939301X00779     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Ishimaru, A. and S. T. Hong, "Multiple scattering effects on coherent bandwidth and pulse distortion of a wave propagating in a random distribution of particles," Radio Science, Vol. 10, No. 6, 637-644, 1975.
2. Zoughi, R., L. K. Wu, and R. K. Moore, "Identification of major backscattering sources in trees and shrubs at 10 GHz," Remote Sensing Environ., Vol. 19, 269-290, 1986.
3. Paris, J. F., "Probing of thick vegetation canopies with a field microwave scatterometer," IEEE Geosci. Remote Sensing, Vol. 24, No. 6, 886-893, 1986.
4. Wu, S., "Preliminary report on the measurements of forest canopies with C-band scatterometer at NASA/NSTL," IEEE Geosci. Remote Sensing, Vol. 24, 894-899, 1986.
5. Sieber, A. J., "Forest signatures in imaging and nonimaging microwave scatterometer data," ESA Journal, Vol. 9, 431-448, 1985.
6. Hyyppa, J. and M. Hallikainen, "A helicopter-borne eightchannel ranging scatterometer for remote sensing: Part 2: Forest inventory," IEEE Geosci. Remote Sensing, Vol. 31, No. 1, 170-179, 1993.
7. Meneghini, R. and D. Atlas, "Simultaneous ocean cross section and rainfall measurements from space with a nadir looking radar," J. Atmos. and Ocean Tech., Vol. 3, No. 3, 1986.
8. Meneghini, R. and K. Nakamura, "Some characteristics of the mirror image return in rain," Tropical Rainfall Measurements, J. S. Theon and N. Fugono (Eds.), 235-242, A. Deepak, Hampton VA, 1989.
9. Brown, G. S., "The average impulse response of a rough surface and its applications," IEEE Trans. Ant. & Prop., Vol. 25, No. 1, 1977.
10. Newkirk, M. H. and G. S. Brown, "Issues related to waveform computations for radar altimeter applications," IEEE Trans. Ant. & Prop., Vol. 40, No. 12, 1992.
11. Newkirk, M. H. and G. S. Brown, "A waveform model for surface and volume scattering from ice and snow," IEEE Geosci. Remote Sensing, Vol. 34, No. 2, 444-456, 1996.
12. Le Vine, D., R. H. Lang, and Y. Lin, "Transient response of a layer of discrete random media over a dielectric half space," IEEE Geosci. Remote Sensing, Vol. 30, No. 5, 1034-1045, 1992.
13. Kilic, O., "Multibeam approach to pulse scattering from discrete random media," Ph.D. thesis, the George Washington University, Washington, DC, 1996.
14. Collin, R. E. and J. F. Zucker, Antenna Theory, Part 1, 61, McGraw Hill, 1969.
15. Lang, R. H., "Electromagnetic backscattering from a sparse distribution of lossy dielectric scatterers," Radio Sci., Vol. 16, No. 1, 15-30, 1981.
16. Lang, R. H. and J. Sidhu, "Electromagnetic scattering from a layer of vegetation," IEEE Geosci. Remote Sensing, Vol. 21, 62-71, 1983.
17. Seker, S., "Resonant scattering from sparsely distributed lossy dielectric scatterers," Ph.D. thesis, the George Washington University, Washington, DC, 1982.
18. Lang, R. H. and H. A. Saleh, "Microwave inversion of leaf area and inclination angle distributions from backscattered data, IEEE Geosci. Remote Sensing, Vol. 23, 685-694, 1986.
19. Felsen L. B. and N. Marcuvitz, Radiation and Scattering of Waves, Ch. 4, Prentice Hall, 1973.
20. Born, M. and E. Wolf, Principles of Optics, 6th ed., Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1980.
21. Kilic, O. and R. H. Lang, "Pulsed beam scattering from a layer of discrete random medium: with applications to spaceborne weather radars," Proc. IGARSS, 760-762, 1996.
22. Liao, L., R. Meneghini, and T. Iguchi, "Simulations of mirror image returns in rain from spaceborne and airborne radars over ocean," Proc. 27th Int. Conf. on Radar Meteorology, 800-802, Vail, CO, 1995.