Angular glint is a significant electromagnetic (EM) scattering signature of extended radar targets. Based on the adaptive cross approximation (ACA) algorithm accelerated method of moments (MoM) and the plane inc...Angular glint is a significant electromagnetic (EM) scattering signature of extended radar targets. Based on the adaptive cross approximation (ACA) algorithm accelerated method of moments (MoM) and the plane incident wave assumption, the narrowband, wideband and newly developed high-resolution range profile (HRRP) based angular glint calculation formulations are derived and applied to arbitrarily shaped three-dimensional (3D) perfectly electrical y conducting (PEC) objects. In addition, the near-field angular glint is emphasized, which is of great importance for radarseeker applications. Furthermore, with the HRRP based angular glint, an approach to rigorously determine range resolution cel s which own relatively smal er angular glint is provided. Numerical results are presented with new findings to demonstrate the usefulness of the developed formulations.展开更多
Among the different available wind sources, i.e. in situ measurements, numeric weather models, the retrieval of wind speed from Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data is one of the most widely used methods, since it can ...Among the different available wind sources, i.e. in situ measurements, numeric weather models, the retrieval of wind speed from Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data is one of the most widely used methods, since it can give high wind resolution cells. For this purpose, one can find two principal approaches: via electromagnetic (EM) models and empirical (EP) models. In both approaches, the Geophysical Model Functions (GMFs) are used to describe the relation of radar scattering, wind speed, and the geometry of observations. By knowing radar scattering and geometric parameters, it is possible to invert the GMFs to retrieve wind speed. It is very interesting to compare wind speed estimated by the EM models, general descriptions of radar scattering from sea surface, to the one estimated by the EP models, specific descriptions for the inverse problem. Based on the comparisons, some ideas are proposed to improve the performance of the EM models for wind speed retrieval.展开更多
An iterative physical optics(IPO) model is proposed to solve extra large scale electric electromagnetic(EM) scattering from randomly rough surfaces. In order to accelerate the convergence of the IPO model, the for...An iterative physical optics(IPO) model is proposed to solve extra large scale electric electromagnetic(EM) scattering from randomly rough surfaces. In order to accelerate the convergence of the IPO model, the forward-backward methodology and its modification with underrelaxation iteration are developed to simulate the rough surface scattering; the local iteration methodology and the fast far field approximation(Fa FFA) in the matrix-vector product are proposed to reduce greatly the computational complexity. These techniques make Monte Carlo simulations possible. Thus, the average Doppler spectra of backscattered signals obtained from the simulations are compared for different incident angles and sea states. In particular, the simulations show a broadening of the Doppler spectra for a more complicated sea state at a low grazing angle(LGA).展开更多
文摘Angular glint is a significant electromagnetic (EM) scattering signature of extended radar targets. Based on the adaptive cross approximation (ACA) algorithm accelerated method of moments (MoM) and the plane incident wave assumption, the narrowband, wideband and newly developed high-resolution range profile (HRRP) based angular glint calculation formulations are derived and applied to arbitrarily shaped three-dimensional (3D) perfectly electrical y conducting (PEC) objects. In addition, the near-field angular glint is emphasized, which is of great importance for radarseeker applications. Furthermore, with the HRRP based angular glint, an approach to rigorously determine range resolution cel s which own relatively smal er angular glint is provided. Numerical results are presented with new findings to demonstrate the usefulness of the developed formulations.
文摘Among the different available wind sources, i.e. in situ measurements, numeric weather models, the retrieval of wind speed from Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data is one of the most widely used methods, since it can give high wind resolution cells. For this purpose, one can find two principal approaches: via electromagnetic (EM) models and empirical (EP) models. In both approaches, the Geophysical Model Functions (GMFs) are used to describe the relation of radar scattering, wind speed, and the geometry of observations. By knowing radar scattering and geometric parameters, it is possible to invert the GMFs to retrieve wind speed. It is very interesting to compare wind speed estimated by the EM models, general descriptions of radar scattering from sea surface, to the one estimated by the EP models, specific descriptions for the inverse problem. Based on the comparisons, some ideas are proposed to improve the performance of the EM models for wind speed retrieval.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(61372033)
文摘An iterative physical optics(IPO) model is proposed to solve extra large scale electric electromagnetic(EM) scattering from randomly rough surfaces. In order to accelerate the convergence of the IPO model, the forward-backward methodology and its modification with underrelaxation iteration are developed to simulate the rough surface scattering; the local iteration methodology and the fast far field approximation(Fa FFA) in the matrix-vector product are proposed to reduce greatly the computational complexity. These techniques make Monte Carlo simulations possible. Thus, the average Doppler spectra of backscattered signals obtained from the simulations are compared for different incident angles and sea states. In particular, the simulations show a broadening of the Doppler spectra for a more complicated sea state at a low grazing angle(LGA).