Study of the Electromagnetic Scattering from the Very Rough Fractal Sea Surface

In this paper, based on the fundamental formulae of the first-order and second-order Kirchhoff approx-imation and with consideration of the shadowing effect, the backscattering enhancement of the one-dimensional veryrough fractal sea surface with Pierson-Moskowitz spectrum is studied under the second-order Kirchhoff approximationat microwave frequency. The numerical results are compared with those of the first-order Kirchhoff approximation andintegral equation method. The dependencies of the bistatic scattering cross section and the backscattering enhancementon the incident angle, fractal dimension, and windspeed over the sea surface are analyzed in detail.