Scattering from layered structures with one rough interface: A unified formulation of perturbative solutions

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1634-1643

  Franceschetti, Giorgio ^a,b   Imperatore, Pasquale ^b   Iodice, Antonio ^a,b   Riccio, Daniele ^a,b   Ruello, Giuseppe ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Backscattering enhancement; Electromagnetic scattering; Layered media; Remote sensing; Rough surfaces

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PROBLEM SOLVING; REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

BACKSCATTERING ENHANCEMENT; LAYERED MEDIA; REFLECTION COEFFICIENTS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING;

EID: 44049105818     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.916222     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Y. Oh, "Retrieval of the effective soil moisture contents as a ground truth from natural soil surfaces," in Proc. IGARSS, 2000, vol. 4, pp. 1702-1704.
2. C. Elachi, L. E. Roth, and G. G. Schaber, "Spaceborne radar subsur-face imaging in hyperarid regions," IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., vol. GRS-22, no. 4, pp. 383-388, Jul. 1984.
3. K. K. Williams and R. Greeley, "Modification of radar backscatter by sand: Result from AIRSAR data and laboratory experiments," in Proc. IGARSS, 2000, vol. 4, pp. 1516-1518.
4. G. Grandjean, P. Paillou, P. Dubois-Fernandez, T. August-Bernex, N. N. Baghdadi, and J. Achache, "Subsurface structures detection by combining L-band Polarimetric SAR and GPR data: Example of the Pyla Dune (France)," IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., vol. 39, no. 6, pp. 1245-1258, Jun. 2001.
5. R. D. West, "Potential application of 1-5 GHz radar backscattering measurements of seasonal land snow cover," Radio Sci., vol. 35, no. 4, pp. 967-982, 2000.
6. K. M. Golden, M. Cheney, K.-H. Ding, A. K. Fung, T. C. Greffell, D. Isaacson, J. A. Kong, S. V. Nghiem, J. Sylvester, and D. P. Winebrenner, "Forward electromagnetic scattering models for sea ice," IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., vol. 36, no. 5, pp. 1655-1674, Sep. 1998.
7. F. G. Bass and I. M. Fuks, Wave Scattering From Statistically Rough Surfaces. Oxford, U.K.: Pergamon, 1979.
8. A. Ishimaru, Wave Propagation and Scattering in Random Media. New York: Academic, 1993.
9. A. G. Voronovich, Wave Scattering From Rough Surfaces, ser. Springer Series on Wave Phenomena. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1994.
10. L. Tsang, J. A. Kong, and R. T. Shin, Theory of Microwave Remote Sensing. New York: Wiley, 1985.
11. F. T. Ulaby, R. K. Moore, and A. K. Fung, Microwave Remote Sensing, vol. I-III. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1982.
12. A. K. Fung, Microwave Scattering and Emission. Models and Their Application. Norwood, MA: Artech House, 1994.
13. A. G. Yarovoy, R. V. de Jongh, and L. P. Ligthard, "Scattering properties of a statistically rough interface inside a multilayered medium," Radio Sci., vol. 35, no. 2, pp. 455-462, 2000.
14. R. Azadegan and K. Sarabandi, "Analytical formulation of the scattering by a slightly rough dielectric boundary covered with a homogeneous dielectric layer," in Proc. IEEE AP-S Int. Symp., Columbus, OH, Jun. 2003, pp. 420-423.
15. I. M. Fuks, "Wave diffraction by a rough boundary of an arbitrary plane-layered medium," IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag., vol. 49, no. 4, pp. 630-639, Apr. 2001.
16. G. Franceschetti, P. Imperatore, A. lodice, D. Riccio, and G. Ruello, "Scattering from layered medium with one rough interface: Comparison and physical interpretation of different methods," in Proc. IGARSS, Toulouse, France, Jul. 2003, pp. 2912-2914.
17. W. C. Chew, Waves and Fields in Inhomogeneous Media. Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Press, 1997.
18. I. M. Fuks and A. G. Voronovich, "Wave diffraction by rough interfaces in an arbitrary plane-layered medium," Waves Random Media, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 253-272, 2000.
19. E. Baharand M. A. Fitzwater, "Full wave physical models of nonspecular scattering in irregular stratified media," IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag., vol. 37, no. 12, pp. 1609-1615, Dec. 1989.
20. A. Tabatabaeenejad and M. Moghaddam, "Bistatic scattering from three-dimensional layered rough surfaces," IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., vol. 44, no. 8, pp. 2102-2114, Aug. 2006.
21. G. V. Rozhnov, "Diffraction of electromagnetic waves by irregular interfaces in stratified, uniaxial anisotropic media," J. Exp. Theor. Phys., vol. 77, no. 5, pp. 709-718, 1993.
22. M. Moghaddam, Y. Rahmat-Samii, E. Rodriguez, D. Entekhabi, J. Hoffman, D. Moller, L. E. Pierce, S. Saatchi, and M. Thomson, "Microwave observatory of subcanopy and subsurface (MOSS): A mission concept for global deep soil moisture observations," IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., vol. 45, no. 8, pp. 2630-2643, Aug. 2007.
23. P. Imperatore, A. Iodice, and D. Riccio, Electromagnetic Wave Scattering From Layered Structures With an Arbitrary Number of Rough Interfaces. (unpublished).