FULL-WAVE SOLUTIONS FOR ROUGH-SURFACE BISTATIC RADAR CROSS-SECTIONS -COMPARISON WITH SMALL PERTURBATION, PHYSICAL OPTICS, NUMERICAL, AND EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS
E. Bahar et Bs. Lee, FULL-WAVE SOLUTIONS FOR ROUGH-SURFACE BISTATIC RADAR CROSS-SECTIONS -COMPARISON WITH SMALL PERTURBATION, PHYSICAL OPTICS, NUMERICAL, AND EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS, Radio science, 29(2), 1994, pp. 407-429
In this paper, full wave solutions are derived for the like- and cross
-polarized electromagnetic fields diffusely scattered by two-dimension
al rough surfaces. These expressions for the diffuse scattered fields
are used to obtain the random rough-surface cross sections. The rough
surface is characterized by a Gaussian joint probability density funct
ion for the surface heights and slopes at two points. These full wave
results are compared with the associated small-perturbation results an
d physical optics results. They are also compared with experimental an
d numerical results (based on Monte Carlo simulations). The earlier as
sumption that the surface height and slopes can be considered to be un
correlated is examined. The impact of using the large-radii curvature
assumption and including self-shadow is also considered.