Title
Microwave remote sensing of natural stratification
Abstract
The response of natural stratification to electromagnetic wave has received much attention in last decades, due to its crucial role played in the remote sensing arena. In this context, when the superficial structure of the Earth, whose formation is inherently layered, is concerned, the most general scheme that can be adopted includes the characterization of layered random media. Moreover, a key issue in remote sensing of Earth and other Planets is to reveal the content under the surface illuminated by the sensors. For such a purpose, a quantitative mathematical analysis of wave propagation in three-dimensional layered rough media is fundamental in understanding intriguing scattering phenomena in such structures, especially in the perspective of remote sensing applications. Recently, a systematic formulation has been introduced to deal with the analysis of a layered structure with an arbitrary number of rough interfaces. Specifically, the results of the Boundary Perturbation Theory (BPT) lead to polarimetric, formally symmetric and physical revealing closed form analytical solutions. The comprehensive scattering model based on the BPT methodologically permits to analyze the bi-static scattering patterns of 3D multilayered rough media. The aim of this paper is to systematically show how polarimetric models obtainable in powerful BPT framework can be successfully applied to several situations of interest, emphasizing its wide relevance in the remote sensing applications scenario. In particular, a proper characterization of the relevant interfacial roughness is adopted resorting to the fractal geometry; numerical examples are then presented with reference to representative of several situations of interest.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1117/12.898355
Proceedings of SPIE
Keywords
Field
DocType
Fractal geometry,scattering,rough multilayers,boundary perturbation theory
Statistical physics,Fractal analysis,Polarimetry,Wave propagation,Perturbation theory,Fractal,Remote sensing,Remote sensing application,Scattering,Surface finish,Mathematics
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
8179
0277-786X
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.48
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Pasquale Imperatore1499.40
Antonio Iodice245373.07
Daniele Riccio3781118.99