Numerical study of electromagnetic scattering from one-dimensional nonlinear fractal sea surface

In recent years, linear fractal sea surface models have been developed for the sea surface in order to establish an electromagnetic backscattering model. Unfortunately, the sea surface is always nonlinear, particularly at high sea states. We present a nonlinear fractal sea surface model and derive an electromagnetic backscattering model. Using this model, we numerically calculate the normalized radar cross section (NRCS) of a nonlinear sea surface. Comparing the averaged NRCS between linear and nonlinear fractal models, we show that the NRCS of a linear fractal sea surface underestimates the NRCS of the real sea surface, especially for sea states with high fractal dimensions, and for dominant ocean surface gravity waves that are either very short or extremely long.     

基于未充分发展海谱的分形海面模型及其电磁散射研究

重构了未充分发展的完全海谱(NDFSS)，提出了一种更符合海面实际情况的基于NDFSS的分形模型(NDFFM)，使用双尺度法计算了NDFFM海面的后向雷达散射截面(BRCS)，详细讨论了NDFFM海面各形成参数与BRCS的关系.将计算数据与传统的分形模型和实测雷达数据进行比对，证明了该模型的准确性和有效性. 关键词： 未充分发展 完全海谱 分形模型 双尺度法     

Electromagnetic backscattering from one-dimensional drifting fractal sea surface Ⅱ:Electromagnetic backscattering model

Sea surface current has a significant influence on electromagnetic(EM) backscattering signals and may constitute a dominant synthetic aperture radar(SAR) imaging mechanism. An effective EM backscattering model for a one-dimensional drifting fractal sea surface is presented in this paper. This model is used to simulate EM backscattering signals from the drifting sea surface. Numerical results show that ocean currents have a significant influence on EM backscattering signals from the sea surface. The normalized radar cross section(NRCS) discrepancies between the model for a coupled wavecurrent fractal sea surface and the model for an uncoupled fractal sea surface increase with the increase of incidence angle,as well as with increasing ocean currents. Ocean currents that are parallel to the direction of the wave can weaken the EM backscattering signal intensity, while the EM backscattering signal is intensified by ocean currents propagating oppositely to the wave direction. The model presented in this paper can be used to study the SAR imaging mechanism for a drifting sea surface.     

海杂波的分段分数布朗运动模型

主要研究了分段分数布朗运动(PFBM)模型在雷达海杂波分形建模中的应用.由于自然界和人造系统中研究对象不具有数学上完美的分形特性, 从而研究对象的分形特性无法在整个尺度区间上成立, 传统上, 海杂波的单一分形模型仅利用无标度区间内海杂波的自相似信息进行参数估计, 并没有考虑海杂波在无标度区间以外的尺度下所包含的信息.分段分数布朗运动从频域角度对海杂波频谱进行分段描述, 对应到时域即从粗略尺度和精细尺度两方面描述海杂波时间序列.结合海杂波产生的物理背景, 该模型可以为海杂波时间序列在粗略尺度和精细尺度下表现出的不同粗糙度提供机理性解释.在此基础上, 还研究了具有不同多普勒频率的运动目标对海杂波的影响, 结果表明运动目标对粗略尺度和精细尺度下海杂波的影响程度是不同的.     

Electromagnetic backscattering from one-dimensional drifting fractal sea surface I: Wave-current coupled model

To study the electromagnetic backscattering from a one-dimensional drifting fractal sea surface, a fractal sea surface wave-current model is derived, based on the mechanism of wave-current interactions. The numerical results show the effect of the ocean current on the wave. Wave amplitude decreases, wavelength and kurtosis of wave height increase, spectrum intensity decreases and shifts towards lower frequencies when the current occurs parallel to the direction of the ocean wave. By comparison, wave amplitude increases, wavelength and kurtosis of wave height decrease, spectrum intensity increases and shifts towards higher frequencies if the current is in the opposite direction to the direction of ocean wave. The wave-current interaction effect of the ocean current is much stronger than that of the nonlinear wave-wave interaction. The kurtosis of the nonlinear fractal ocean surface is larger than that of linear fractal ocean surface. The effect of the current on skewness of the probability distribution function is negligible. Therefore, the ocean wave spectrum is notably changed by the surface current and the change should be detectable in the electromagnetic backscattering signal.     

海杂波FRFT域的分形特征分析及小目标检测方法

针对海杂波背景下海情对小目标检测的严重影响, 本文研究了实测海杂波在分数阶Fourier变换(FRFT)域的分形特征, 分别提出了单、高尺度下的分形检测方法. 由数学定义推得, FRFT 在不同阶数和尺度情况下, 不具有一致的自相似特性, 采用多重分形趋势波动分析法确定分形参数H(q), 分析了海杂波在不同海情、距离和极化条件下的分形特征. 在单尺度基础上结合FRFT的变阶优势, 提出了阶数自适应的小目标检测方法; 高尺度条件下, 比较了不同因素对海杂波FRFT域多重分形参数的影响. 结果表明:海杂波FRFT域可用变换阶数的方法检测到湮没在复杂海情中的小信号, 检测门限多数提高200%以上, 比采用时域信号提高26.3%. H(q) 在负高尺度上具有明显的多重分形特征差异, H(q)-q曲线满足反正切分布, 纯海杂波与含目标数据的拟合幅值比分别大于1.8(HH)和1.4(VV), 为海杂波背景小目标检测提供了判定依据.     

海杂波背景下小目标检测的分形方法

针对海杂波背景下小目标检测对海情依赖性强的问题, 本文采用分数布朗运动模型对实测海杂波建模, 结合多重分形去势波动分析法确定分形参数, 分析了海杂波的单尺度、多重分形特性. 在单尺度分形的基础上, 利用表征海杂波分形特征的分数维和Hurst指数构建了分形差量, 提出了基于分形差量的小目标检测方法;在多重分形基础上, 比较了两种海杂波的高尺度多重分形特性. 结果表明, 当尺度q > 10时, 纯海杂波的多重分形参数H(q) < 0, 而存在小目标的H(q) > 0, 此差异性为高尺度分形参数的海杂波背景小目标检测提供了判定依据. 所研究的两种方法均能实现不同海情下的小目标检测.     

Polarimetric scattering from a two-dimensional improved sea fractal surface

This paper studies the influence of wind parameters and fractal dimension from an improved two-dimensional sea fractal surface on the polarimetric scattering by using facet integration.A two-dimensional improved sea surface simulated is discretized into three matrices of sea surface facets including a height matrix and two slope matrices on orthogonal directions.Based on the Kirchhoff approximation,the polarimetric scattered field is derived in the Cartesian coordinate system by integration of three matrices mentioned above.Finally,the fully polarised radar cross section is numerically simulated and the dependence of the polarimetric scattering on the sea fractal surface,such as the wind speed,the wind direction,as well as the fractal dimension,is discussed in detail.     

分形海面的微波电磁散射计算模型

利用2维Weierstrass带限函数建立了模拟粗糙海面形状的模型,讨论了分形维数、频率幅度尺度因子等分形参数对海面形状的影响。以粗糙海面形状模型为基础,针对模拟的分形海面形状,从亥姆霍兹积分出发,利用基尔霍夫近似推导出2维分形海面的电磁散射系数,并进行了数值模拟。对微波电磁散射特性随分形维数、频率幅度尺度因子、入射波入射角变化的规律做了进一步讨论分析。在低掠射角时电波会受海面的遮挡,用遮挡函数对散射系数进行修正。研究表明:随着分形维数的增大,散射峰分布变均匀。频率幅度尺度因子越大,散射也越分散。随着入射角的增大,后向散射也逐渐增强,而前向散射逐渐减弱。     

双尺度动态分形粗糙海面的电磁散射及多普勒谱研究

利用更为符合海面实际散射场计算的双尺度法分析并计算了一维动态分形粗糙海面的后向散射截面，同时与微扰法有关结果进行了比较.研究了动态分形海面后向散射信号的多普勒谱分形特征，分析了不同极化状态下后向散射截面和多普勒谱谱宽随入射角及分维的变化规律，最后详细讨论了多普勒谱中心频率与海面Bragg谐振频率间的关系. 关键词： 双尺度模型 分形海面 电磁散射 多普勒谱     

粗糙海面对高斯分布激光光束的反射模型推导

研究激光光束海面反射光强的方向分布特性对海上光电对抗等领域的工程实践具有重要意义.本文采用分形方法模拟粗糙海面,并在海面基准坐标系中建立起描述粗糙海面几何特征的数学方程,然后基于蒙特卡罗方法模拟高斯光束,依据几何光学原理在基准坐标系下推导了高斯光束的海面反射模型,采用该模型可以编程计算激光光束海面反射光强的方向分布.将模拟计算结果与实验结果进行了对比分析,结果表明该模型可以较好地反映激光光束海面反射光强的分布趋势,验证了模型的有效性.     

Chaotic dynamics of sea clutter

The notion that a deterministic nonlinear dynamical system (with relatively few degrees of freedom) can display aperiodic behavior has a strong bearing on sea clutter characterization: random-looking sea clutter may be the outcome of a chaotic process. This new approach envisages deterministic rules for the underlying sea clutter dynamics, in contrast to the stochastic approach where sea clutter is viewed as a random process with a large number of degrees of freedom. In this paper, we demonstrate, convincingly for the first time, the chaotic dynamics of sea clutter. We say so on the basis of results obtained using radar data collected from a series of extensive and thorough experiments, which have been carried out with ground-truthed sea clutter data sets at three different sites. The study includes correlation dimension analysis (based on the maximum likelihood principle) and Lyapunov spectrum analysis. The Lyapunov (Kaplan-Yorke) dimension, which is a byproduct of Lyapunov spectrum analysis, shows that it is indeed a good estimator of the correlation dimension. The Lyapunov spectrum also reveals that sea clutter is produced by a coupled system of nonlinear differential equations of order five or six. (c) 1997 American Institute of Physics.     

改进的二维分形模型在海面电磁散射中的应用

提出了一种改进的二维分形海面模型，其表面谱函数在空间波数小于基波波数及大于基波波数时分别满足正幂率关系和负幂率关系.通过比较可以发现在不同风速时，改进模型的空间自相关函数及表面轮廓谱和有关文献结果有较好的吻合.在满足Kirchhoff近似条件下推导了改进分形模型的散射系数及散射强度系数的计算公式并进行了数值计算，比较了改进模型和经典模型的后向散射强度系数角分布并详细讨论了它们随入射频率、海上风速和风向的变化. 关键词： 改进分形模型 粗糙海面 电磁散射 Kirchhoff近似     

海杂波背景下的目标检测新方法

提出了一种基于分形布朗运动模型的S波段雷达海杂波分形维数提取方法.分析了基于记忆库混沌时间序列预测方法，引入一种改进核函数的支持向量机分类器.在此基础上，提出了一种新的海杂波背景下目标检测方法.应用S波段雷达实测海杂波数据，计算得到了该信号的分形维数与Lyapunov指数，验证了S波段雷达海杂波的混沌分形特性.仿真实验结果验证了该方法具有较强的检测能力和抗杂波性能. 关键词： 分形布朗运动 分形维数 记忆库预测方法 支持向量机分类器     

Box modeling of the Eastern Mediterranean sea

In ∼1990 a new source of deep water formation in the Eastern Mediterranean was found in the southern part of the Aegean sea. Till then, the only source of deep water formation in the Eastern Mediterranean was in the Adriatic sea; the rate of the deep water formation of the new Aegean source is 1 Sv, three times larger than the Adriatic source. We develop a simple three-box model to study the stability of the thermohaline circulation of the Eastern Mediterranean sea. The three boxes represent the Adriatic sea, Aegean sea, and the Ionian seas. The boxes exchange heat and salinity and may be described by a set of nonlinear differential equations. We analyze these equations and find that the system may have one, two, or four stable flux states. We conjecture that the change in the deep water formation in the Eastern Mediterranean sea is attributed to a switch between the different states on the thermohaline circulation; this switch may result from decreased temperature and/or increased salinity over the Aegean sea.     

Performance comparison of detection methods for weak target based on two-dimensional fractal sea surface

A detection method of the weak radar target is studied by applying fuzzy theory and multifractal correlation theory based on a two-dimensional fractal sea surface model. Firstly, a two-dimensional fractal sea surface model and its backscattering coefficient are introduced, the backscattering coefficient is a universal model affected by seawater permittivity, electromagnetic wave incidence angle, incident frequency, wind speed and wind direction factors. A novel two-dimensional wideband radar echo model, which is considered as a time-domain convolution of the stepped frequency signal radiated by airborne radar and the backscattering coefficient, is derived. Secondly, multifractal correlation theory is elaborated and a computation method of a membership degree of multifractal correlation spectrum is proposed, fuzzy theory and the AdaBoost algorithm are applied to the target detection. Finally, several target detection methods are compared with CA-CFAR and works of the predecessors. The results of the comparative study show its rationality of the two-dimensional wideband radar echo model and the superiority of wideband radars in detection performance, it is also seen that the multifractal correlation spectrum outperforms the multifractal spectrum in the probability of detection.     

Regular network model for the sea ice-albedo feedback in the Arctic

The Arctic Ocean and sea ice form a feedback system that plays an important role in the global climate. The complexity of highly parameterized global circulation (climate) models makes it very difficult to assess feedback processes in climate without the concurrent use of simple models where the physics is understood. We introduce a two-dimensional energy-based regular network model to investigate feedback processes in an Arctic ice-ocean layer. The model includes the nonlinear aspect of the ice-water phase transition, a nonlinear diffusive energy transport within a heterogeneous ice-ocean lattice, and spatiotemporal atmospheric and oceanic forcing at the surfaces. First results for a horizontally homogeneous ice-ocean layer show bistability and related hysteresis between perennial ice and perennial open water for varying atmospheric heat influx. Seasonal ice cover exists as a transient phenomenon. We also find that ocean heat fluxes are more efficient than atmospheric heat fluxes to melt Arctic sea ice.     

基于小波leaders的海杂波时变奇异谱分布分析

海杂波的奇异谱分析不仅能从理论上揭示海洋表面的动力学机理,同时也是对海探测雷达的关键技术之一.本文提出基于小波leaders的海杂波时变奇异谱分析方法,将时间信息引入海杂波的奇异谱分析之中,从而实现动态的解析描述海杂波随时间变化的奇异谱特性.在理论上,通过信号自身加窗,将时间信息引入传统的奇异谱(或称多重分形谱),实现了对海杂波时变奇异谱分布分析;在算法上,充分利用了小波leaders技术对于多种奇异性的提取能力(包括chirp奇异性和cusp奇异性),通过对时变奇异性指数和时变尺度函数的Legendre变换,实现对海杂波时变奇异谱分布的计算;在应用部分,采用经典的多重分形模型——随机小波序列(RWC)以及三级海态条件下连续波多普勒体制雷达海杂波进行仿真分析,实验结果表明:1)基于小波leaders的奇异谱分布能跟踪海杂波的时变尺度特性,有效展示其时变奇异性谱分布;2)算法具有较好的负矩特性和统计收敛性.该方法能为复杂非线性系统及随机多重分形信号分析提供参考.     

采用混合模型数值模拟从深海到浅海内波的传播

在南海东沙岛附近, 从MODIS遥感图像发现内波传播是从深海经陆架坡再到浅海, 由于深海和浅海环境条件的差异以及传播模型的适用条件不同, 因此 不能采用同一模型模拟内波的传播, 需用两种模型来分别模拟内波在深海和浅海中的传播. 采用差分法, 首先用非线性薛定谔方程模拟了深海内波的传播, 然后用EKdV方程模拟了内波在浅海中的继续传播. 模拟结果与实际的MODIS遥感内波图像相符合, 并与应用单一模型模拟结果相比, 混合模型模拟该海区的内波传播更接近遥感实测, 表明了混合模型的合理性.     

采用混合模型数值模拟从深海到浅海内波的传播

在南海东沙岛附近, 从MODIS遥感图像发现内波传播是从深海经陆架坡再到浅海, 由于深海和浅海环境条件的差异以及传播模型的适用条件不同, 因此 不能采用同一模型模拟内波的传播, 需用两种模型来分别模拟内波在深海和浅海中的传播. 采用差分法, 首先用非线性薛定谔方程模拟了深海内波的传播, 然后用EKdV方程模拟了内波在浅海中的继续传播. 模拟结果与实际的MODIS遥感内波图像相符合, 并与应用单一模型模拟结果相比, 混合模型模拟该海区的内波传播更接近遥感实测, 表明了混合模型的合理性.