Scattering and Depolarization of Electromagnetic Waves--Full Wave Solutions.

Abstract

Traditionally physical optics and perturbation theories have been used to derive the like and cross polarized scattering cross sections for composite random rough surfaces. To this end two scale models have been adopted and the rough surfaces are regarded as small scale surface perturbations that are superimposed on large scale, filtered surfaces. Thus the scattering cross sections are expressed as sums of two cross sections. The first accounts for specular point scattering. It is given by the physical optics cross sections for the filtered surface consisting of the large scale spectral components. The second accounts for Bragg Scattering. It is given by the perturbation cross section for the surface consisting of the small scale optical components that ride on the filtered surface.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1984
Accession Number
ADA139810

Entities

People

  • E. Bahar

Organizations

  • University of Nebraska–Lincoln

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Air Platforms
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Angle Of Incidence
  • Autocorrelation
  • Backscattering
  • Bragg Scattering
  • Coefficients
  • Differential Equations
  • Electromagnetic Radiation
  • Electromagnetic Scattering
  • Equations
  • Models
  • Perturbations
  • Phase Modulation
  • Polarization
  • Radio Waves
  • Remote Sensing
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Electromagnetic Wave Scattering and Antenna Radiation Engineering