一层随机非球形粒子高阶散射矢量辐射传输迭代解的参数求逆

根据一层随机非球形粒子矢量辐射传输(VRT)方程的一阶与高阶Mueller矩阵解的差异,提出了在已知一些参数的条件下,用水平与垂直同极化和交叉极化后向散射测量反演非球形粒子复介电常数和单位面积粒子数的迭代方法,并用极化后向散射强度的模拟测量数据及机载合成孔径雷达(Air SAR)实测数据进行了反演试验,并对反演值与各参数的关系以及测量噪声对反演的影响进行了讨论.     

非球形粒子散射光的去偏振特性研究

目标对入射偏振光的散射特性反映了目标的属性信息。在Rayleigh散射理论的基础上，通过单层非球形粒子对入射偏振光的散射数学模型，应用矢量传输方程来计算非球形粒子散射的Mueller矩阵元，求解散射介质的偏振度，讨论在不同介质层厚度、粒子半径和探测角的条件下，非球形粒子散射光去偏振度的变化特性，给出了模拟仿真结果。该方法为研究目标的内部结构、厚度和粗糙度等特征以及目标的探测和识别提供了一种新的途径。     

非均匀随机散射介质层的多次散射和热辐射的分层迭代解

为纳入矢量辐射传输方程的多次散射，将非均匀平行分层分布的随机散射介质划分成多个薄 层，利用各薄层的低阶Mueller矩阵解推导出整层的高阶散射迭代解.用这一方法计算了具有 占空比、粒子大小和温度廓线非均匀分布的平行分层随机密集球形粒子积雪层的极化热辐射 .数值结果与一层均匀随机散射层的离散坐标-特征值方法作了比较，讨论了多次散射和热辐 射与散射层各特征参数的关系，与积雪层微波遥感数据进行了对比. 关键词： VRT方程 平行分层 高阶散射解 迭代解     

随机取向群聚椭球粒子光散射特性研究

利用离散偶极子近似方法,考虑单元粒子之间的电磁相互作用,数值计算了随机取向的不同尺度参数、不同纵横比的群聚椭球粒子的缪勒矩阵元素,给出了各个缪勒矩阵元素的角分布曲线,探讨了随机取向的群聚椭球粒子的尺度参数、纵横比、基本粒子相对位置对其缪勒矩阵元素的影响。并将随机取向群聚椭球粒子的光散射特性与单个等效球形粒子的数值结果进行了比较。结果表明,随机取向群聚椭球粒子的光散射特性与等效球形粒子的光散射特性存在很大差别,基本粒子的形状越偏离球形,这种差别就越大; 随机取向群聚椭球粒子中椭球粒子的纵横比和相对位置对整个群聚粒子的缪勒矩阵元素存在不同程度的影响,并且此影响随着粒子尺度参数的增大而变得更加显著。     

随机取向群聚椭球粒子光散射特性研究

利用离散偶极子近似方法,考虑单元粒子之间的电磁相互作用,数值计算了随机取向的不同尺度参数、不同纵横比的群聚椭球粒子的缪勒矩阵元素,给出了各个缪勒矩阵元素的角分布曲线,探讨了随机取向的群聚椭球粒子的尺度参数、纵横比、基本粒子相对位置对其缪勒矩阵元素的影响。并将随机取向群聚椭球粒子的光散射特性与单个等效球形粒子的数值结果进行了比较。结果表明,随机取向群聚椭球粒子的光散射特性与等效球形粒子的光散射特性存在很大差别,基本粒子的形状越偏离球形,这种差别就越大; 随机取向群聚椭球粒子中椭球粒子的纵横比和相对位置对整个群聚粒子的缪勒矩阵元素存在不同程度的影响,并且此影响随着粒子尺度参数的增大而变得更加显著。     

非均匀散射层矢量辐射传输(VRT)方程高阶散射解的迭代法

将散射介质层在z轴方向划分成薄层，用薄层的一阶散射强度、Fourier变换和迭代方法求解散射介质整层的矢量辐射传输(VRT)方程的高阶散射解.该方法将一阶散射与高阶散射迭代结合起来，计算公式简明，可计算高阶迭代解，计算时间少.计算结果与一层均匀散射介质的VRT方程一阶Mueller矩阵解、半空间均匀散射介质二阶Mueller矩阵解、以及离散坐标-特征值特征矢量法的VRT热辐射的数值解作了全面的比较.提出并讨论了非均匀散射层主动与被动VRT方程的高阶解.本计算程序可以通用于非球形粒子多层结构及非均匀介质的散射和热辐射计算. 关键词： VRT方程 分层 迭代解     

随机介质中的矢量辐射传输理论

本文讨论了极化电磁波在随机介质中多次散射,传输和热辐射的斯托克斯矢量的辐射传输理论。其中包括随机分布离散的球形和非球形粒子的矢量辐射传输方程,离散坐标-特征分析法,付利叶变换,迭代法等数值解。讨论了非球形粒子的穆勒矩阵。并研究了密集分布的散射粒子介质的辐射传输理论,考虑了密集粒子散射的相干性,计算了有效传播常数。理论及数值结果与实验作了很好的比较。     

随机介质中的矢量辐射传输理论

本文讨论了极化电磁波在随机介质中多次散射，传输和热辐射的斯托克斯矢量的辐射传输理论。其中包括随机分布离散的球形和非球形粒子的矢量辐射传输方程，离散坐标——特征分析法，付利叶变换，迭代法等数值解。讨论了非球形粒子的穆勒矩阵。并研究了密集分布的散射粒子介质的辐射传输理论，考虑了密集粒子散射的相干性，计算了有效传播常数。理论及数值结果与实验用了很好的比较。     

取向比对椭球气溶胶粒子散射特性的影响

利用T矩阵和离散坐标法研究了取向比对椭球粒子散射特性的影响, 计算了小尺度范围内椭球粒子的散射特征参量, 包括消光效率因子、不对称因子、单次散射反照率、散射相矩阵及双向反射函数(BRDF). 结果表明, 椭球粒子的散射特性与取向比密切相关, 粒子取向比会影响散射参量的振荡频率和振幅, 与球形粒子散射参量的相对差异也呈周期振荡趋势. 研究还发现, 某些特殊粒子尺寸的散射参量与粒子取向比基本无关. 在多次散射条件下, 分析不同取向比粒子群的BRDF随反射角和光学厚度的变化特性. 结果显示: 不同取向比粒子群的BRDF随反射角的变化趋势基本一致, 球形粒子群比非球形粒子群的BRDF曲线波动振幅更大; 球形-非球形粒子的BRDF相对差异随光学厚度和取向比的增大而减小, 随入射角的增大而增大.     

随机取向立方粒子光散射的数值分析

用离散偶极子近似法，计算了立方粒子随机取向时在几种等效尺度参数下的光散射特性，并与等效球形粒子的光散射特性进行了比较．结果表明：立方粒子和其他非球形粒子与其等效球形粒子光散射特性之间的差别大致相同，说明对于随机取向的非球形粒子的光散射问题，粒子的内在对称性和表面的突变不会带来明显的效果． 关键词：     

The temporal Mueller matrix solution for polarimetric scattering from a layer of random non-spherical scatterers

The Mueller matrix solution of the vector radiative transfer equation with time dependence is derived in this paper. It is applied to simulation of polarimetric bistatic scattering from a layer of non-uniformly oriented, random non-spherical scatterers when a Gaussian plane pulse is incident upon. Co-polarized and cross-polarized bistatic scattering are numerically calculated. The pulse echoes are compared with the incidence, and demonstrate its functional dependence on the physical parameters of random medium, such as spatial orientation and fractional volume of scatterers, incidence angle and polarization, the layer depth and others.     

Multiple scattering of light by a layer of discrete random medium: backscattering

The problem of multiple scattering of light by a layer of discrete random medium is considered. The medium is supposed to be rarefied with scatterers randomly positioned in the layer. Backscattering of light incident normal to the plane of the layer is considered. The scattering matrix is presented as a sum of three matrices, one of them corresponding to incoherent scattering of light and difference of the other two matrices describing coherent scattering. Equations for the calculation of these matrices are given.     

In-plane bistatic backward scattering from seabottom with randomly inhomogeneous sediment and rough interface

1 Introduction Backward scattering of sound due to sediment is the main source of shallow waterreverberation. In order to predict the reverberation or detect sediment properties frommeasured reverberation data, a reasonable in-plane bistatic backward scattering (BBS)model is essential. The scattering can be caused by the roughness of water-sediment in-terface or by inhomogeneities within the volume of sediment. A great deal of researchhas been done on sediment backscattering, most of which h…     

Reflection of waves from a strong scatterer buried in a random medium

Reflection of waves from a mirror covered by a random layer of isotropic, absorbing scatterers is studied and the angular distribution of the scattered intensity is calculated both analytically and numerically. It is shown that backscattering enhancement as well as an enhancement of the incoherent signal in the specular direction take place even in the singly scattered random field. The dependence of the retroreflected intensity is shown to be a non-monotonic function of the depth of the mirror, with a maximum at a depth of the order of the scattering mean free path. Possibilities for employing the results obtained to detect buried strong scatterers and to retrieve parameters of the random media are discussed. In particular, it is shown that in the case of strong absorption the reflecting plane manifests itself by the presence of a peak in the retroreflected intensity which is missing from the scattering diagram of a free-standing or an infinitely thick random layer.     

Investigation on electromagnetic scattering from rough soil surface of layered medium using the small perturbation method

Electromagnetic scattering from a rough surface of layered medium is investigated, and the formulae of the scattering coefficients for different polarizations are derived using the small perturbation method. A rough surface with exponential correlation function is presented for describing a rough soil surface of layered medium, the formula of its scattering coefficient is derived by considering the spectrum of the rough surface with exponential correlation function; the curves of the bistatic scattering coefficient of HH polarization with variation of the scattering angle are obtained by numerical calculation. The influence of the permittivity of layered medium, the mean layer thickness of intermediate medium, the roughness surface parameters and the frequency of the incident wave on the blstatic scattering coefficient is discussed. Numerical results show that the influence of the permittivity of layered medium, the mean layer thickness of intermediate medium, the rms and the correlation length of the rough surface, and the frequency of the incident wave on the bistatic scattering coefficient is very complex.     

Radiative transfer theory with time delay for the effect of pulse entrapping in a resonant random medium: General transfer equation and point-like scatterer model

Abstract

A pulse propagation of a vector electromagnetic wave field in a discrete random medium under the condition of Mie resonant scattering is considered on the basis of the Bethe–Salpeter equation in the two-frequency domain in the form of an exact kinetic equation which takes into account the energy accumulation inside scatterers. The kinetic equation is simplified using the transverse field and far wave zone approximations which give a new general tensor radiative transfer equation with strong time delay by resonant scattering. This new general radiative transfer equation, being specified in terms of the low-density limit and the resonant point-like scatterer model, takes the form of a new tensor radiative transfer equation with three Lorentzian time-delay kernels by resonant scattering. In contrast to the known phenomenological scalar Sobolev equation with one Lorentzian time-delay kernel, the derived radiative transfer equation does take into account effects of (i) the radiation polarization, (ii) the energy accumulation inside scatterers, (iii) the time delay in three terms, namely in terms with the Rayleigh phase tensor, the extinction coefficient and a coefficient of the energy accumulation inside scatterers, respectively (i.e. not only in a term with the Rayleigh phase tensor). It is worth noting that the derived radiative transfer equation is coordinated with Poynting's theorem for non-stationary radiation, unlike the Sobolev equation. The derived radiative transfer equation is applied to study the Compton–Milne effect of a pulse entrapping by its diffuse reflection from the semi-infinite random medium when the pulse, while propagating in the medium, spends most of its time inside scatterers. This specific albedo problem for the derived radiative transfer equation is resolved in scalar approximation using a version of the time-dependent invariance principle. In fact, the scattering function of the diffusely reflected pulse is expressed in terms of a generalized time-dependent Chandrasekhar H-function which satisfies a governing nonlinear integral equation. Simple analytic asymptotics are obtained for the scattering function of the front and the back parts of the diffusely reflected Dirac delta function incident pulse, depending on time, the angle of reflection, the mean free time, the microscopic time delay and a parameter of the energy accumulation inside scatterers. These asymptotics show quantitatively how the rate of increase of the front part and the rate of decrease of the rear part of the diffusely reflected pulse become slower with transition from the regime of conventional radiative transfer to that of pulse entrapping in the resonant random medium.     

Scattering from a layer of discrete random medium over a random interface: application to microwave backscattering from forests

The distorted Born approximation is used to calculate the bistatic scattering coefficients from a layer of sparsely distributed discrete dielectric scatterers over a random interface. After specializing to the backscatter case, the scattering coefficient is determined as a sum of direct, direct reflected and interface scatter contributions. The direct reflected term contains contributions from the average interface and the interface fluctuations. These direct reflected terms include both incoherent and coherent or enhancement terms. The results are applied to backscattering from a mature hemlock forest over a roughened ground. The model results show that the direct reflected surface fluctuation terms give the dominant contribution to backscatter at P band and are equal in magnitude to the volume scatter at L band. Use of these new results brings the model predictions and experimental results into agreement.     

Anomalous polarization effects during light scattering in random media

The dependence of the intensity of light backscattered from a layer of a randomly inhomogeneous medium on the polarization of incident light and the size of scatterers has been investigated. The results of numerical simulation have demonstrated that the direction of rotation of the plane of polarization is different in systems with small- and large-scale inhomogeneities. It is shown for the first time that the dependence of the sign of the residual circular polarization on the size of scatterers can be observed in systems described by the Henyey-Greenstein phase function used in simulating biological tissues. A similar anomalous polarization effect, which consists in changing the direction of rotation of the plane of polarization of backscattered light with an increase in the scattering angle, is revealed in studying the coherent backscattering component. These polarization effects are observed in light backscattering from optically active media.     

Angular correlation function of wave scattering by a random rough surface and discrete scatterers and its application in the detection of a buried object

Abstract

The scattering of waves by a buried object is often obscured by the clutter around it. Such clutter can be attributed to the scattering by random rough surfaces and random discrete scatterers. Recent studies show that, because of the memory effect, the angular correlation function can suppress the effects of clutter and make the scattering by the buried object more conspicuous. In this paper, we study the angular correlation function of wave scattering by a buried object underneath a layer of random discrete scatterers and a non-Gaussian random rough surface. Such problems are common when the target is buried below a rough surface that is underneath a layer of vegetation. Numerical results are illustrated for various parameters of rough surfaces and discrete scatterers. The angular correlation function is calculated by frequency and angular averaging. It is shown that the use of the angular correlation function can enhance target detection in the presence of clutter.