Backscattering coefficient of a perturbed sinusoidal surface
Abstract
A coherent model for scattering from a randomly perturbed periodic surface is developed using the Kirchhoff approximation. It is intended to model wave scattering from ground surfaces with row directions. Results are illustrated and compared with an incoherent scatter model and measured backscattering angular curves from ploughed fields.
- Publication:
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IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
- Pub Date:
- March 1984
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 1984ITAP...32..291E
- Keywords:
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- Backscattering;
- Earth Surface;
- Electromagnetic Scattering;
- Scattering Coefficients;
- Wave Scattering;
- Mathematical Models;
- Periodic Functions;
- Perturbation Theory;
- Surface Geometry;
- Surface Roughness Effects;
- Communications and Radar