Fractional weierstrass model for rough ocean surface and analytical derivation of its scattered field in a closed form

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 50, Issue 10 PART1, 2012, Pages 3627-3639

  Tao, Ran ^a   Li, Yang ^a   Bai, Xia ^a   Waheed, Abdul ^a  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Fractal geometry; Kirchhoff approximation (KA); nonlinear surface model; ocean surface electromagnetic scattering; Weierstrass model

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRIC WAVEFORMS; CLOSED FORM; CORRELATION LENGTHS; CURVE-FIT; EDGE EFFECT; ELECTROMAGNETIC PARAMETERS; ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING; FRACTAL FUNCTIONS; FRACTAL GEOMETRY; INFINITE NUMBERS; KIRCHHOFF APPROXIMATIONS; LINEAR RANGE; LINEAR WAVES; MODEL SURFACE; NEW PARAMETERS; NON-LINEARITY; NONLINEAR SURFACE; NORMALIZATION CONSTANTS; OCEAN STATE; OCEAN SURFACE WAVES; OCEAN SURFACES; PIERSON-MOSKOWITZ SPECTRUM; SCATTERED FIELD; SIMPLEST LINEAR; SURFACE MODELING; WEIERSTRASS FUNCTIONS;

FRACTALS; GEOMECHANICS; SURFACE WAVES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; GEOMETRY; KIRCHHOFF EQUATION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EID: 84867075835     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2185505     Document Type: Article

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