基于不同散射机制特征的海杂波时变多普勒谱模型

海杂波的多普勒谱建模对采用多普勒处理技术的雷达进行有效的海杂波抑制和目标检测具有重要的意义.本文分别考虑Bragg,白冠和破碎波三种散射机制对应的多普勒谱分量的特征,对三种谱分量的频移和展宽进行分离,并引入附加速度频移量,提出了基于不同散射机制特征的雷达海杂波时变多普勒谱模型.该模型假设谱强度为受观测时间区间影响的随机变量,能够同时适用于平均多普勒谱与短时多普勒谱建模.通过分别对黄海海域实测的岸基P,S波段海杂波平均多普勒谱与短时多普勒谱建模测试,结果表明该模型相对传统模型的建模精度更高,尤其体现在短时谱的观测时间较长和平均谱形式较为复杂的情况下,建模误差显著减小.     

Study on Doppler spectra of two-dimensional skewed sea surfaces

This paper deals with the effects of horizontal skewness on Doppler spectra. A.K. Fung et al. pointed out that the crests of the sea waves are tilted towards the wind direction, which is referred to as horizontal skewness. Although the nonlinear sea surface is more realistic than the linear one, it cannot embody the statistical front-back asymmetry of real sea waves due to the influence of the wind. Thus, the impact of horizontal skewness must be considered. The first-order modified Lagrange model for asymmetric ocean waves is combined with Monte Carlo method to produce the two-dimensional (2-D) time-varying skewed sea surfaces which are nonlinear and skewed simultaneously. Moreover, the second-order small-slope approximation method is used to calculate the scattering field and study the Doppler spectral characteristics from skewed sea surfaces. Horizontal skewness makes Doppler spectra broader in upwind case, but narrower in downwind case. In addition, the impact of horizontal skewness on Doppler spectra is dependent on wind direction and incident elevation angle.     

Ship motion estimation from polarized Doppler spectra from ship wakes on two-dimensional sea surfaces

Abstract

The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the Doppler spectra from ship wakes on two-dimensional sea surfaces and further estimate the ship motion characteristics. The analysis of the ship wakes is helpful to detect the existence of ships on sea surface. And it will be an alternative method when the radar cross-section values are not competent to identify the ship target. In the study, Doppler spectra for different polarizations are compared with and without ship’s wakes based on the second-order small slope approximation method. As expected, there appears the second spectral peak when ship’s wake is considered. Moreover, the ship velocities, wind speed, and direction are also analyzed. As the results shown, there is a good linearity relation between the position of the second Doppler spectral peak and the ship velocity. Therefore, it is feasible to detect ship according the Doppler spectra.     

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     

An angular cutoff composite model for investigation on electromagnetic scattering from two-dimensional rough sea surfaces

Based on the local configuration angle division to select the corresponding method for electromagnetic scattering calculation from rough sea surface,this paper presents an angular cutoff composite model:when the local scattered angle is in the specular region that is given by an approximately 20 degrees cone around the specular direction,the Kirchhoff approximation is applied to evaluate the specular reflection,which dominates the total scattering in this region;the small perturbation method is employed to handle the diffuse reflection which is predominant as the local scattered angle is situated out of the specular region.Numerical results are compared with those of experimental and theoretical models in several configurations as a function of incident angle,wind speed,wind direction.The comparison of numerical results of other experimental and theoretical models in several configurations shows that the new composite model is robust to give accurate numerical evaluations for the sea surface scattering.     

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.     

Study on electromagnetic backscattering and Doppler spectrum of a moving spherical target above time-varying sea surface

The surface electric current of the sea surface and the first-order scattering field from the spherical target were obtained by employing Physical Optics method and Mie theory, respectively. The backscattering field of the time-evolving sea surface was calculated by using Kirchhoff Approximation. Meanwhile, by taking the advantage of a newly developed technique that utilizes the reciprocity theorem, the difficulty in formulating the secondary coupling scattering fields from the spherical target above the sea surface was reduced. The dependence of the secondary coupling backscattering field on the size and the position of the spherical target was discussed, and the characteristic of the Doppler spectrum of the composite backscattering field with different incident angles was analyzed in detail. Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 60571058) and the Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China (Grant No. 20070701010)     

The weighted curvature approximation in scattering from sea surfaces

A family of unified models in scattering from rough surfaces is based on local corrections of the tangent plane approximation through higher-order derivatives of the surface. We revisit these methods in a common framework when the correction is limited to the curvature, that is essentially the second-order derivative. The resulting expression is formally identical to the weighted curvature approximation, with several admissible kernels, however. For sea surfaces under the Gaussian assumption, we show that the weighted curvature approximation reduces to a universal and simple expression for the off-specular normalized radar cross-section (NRCS), regardless of the chosen kernel. The formula involves merely the sum of the NRCS in the classical Kirchhoff approximation and the NRCS in the small perturbation method, except that the Bragg kernel in the latter has to be replaced by the difference of a Bragg and a Kirchhoff kernel. This result is consistently compared with the resonant curvature approximation. Some numerical comparisons with the method of moments and other classical approximate methods are performed at various bands and sea states. For the copolarized components, the weighted curvature approximation is found numerically very close to the cut-off invariant two-scale model, while bringing substantial improvement to both the Kirchhoff and small-slope approximation. However, the model is unable to predict cross-polarization in the plane of incidence. The simplicity of the formulation opens new perspectives in sea state inversion from remote sensing data.     

海面微波散射场多普勒谱特性研究

基于粗糙面电磁散射双尺度模型推导给出了海面微波散射场多普勒谱频移和谱宽的理论公式, 在该理论公式的推导过程中同时考虑了大尺度海浪的倾斜调制、遮蔽效应和曲率修正效应等因素的影响. 文中将理论公式计算结果与精确数值结果进行了比较, 并讨论了倾斜调制、遮蔽效应及曲率修正效应等因素对多普勒频移和谱宽的影响, 发现倾斜调制使水平极化散射回波多普勒频移显著增大, 从而导致水平极化回波多普勒频移比垂直极化回波多普勒频移大; 在中等入射角度区域, 遮蔽效应和曲率修正效应对多普勒谱并无显著影响, 而在掠射条件下, 遮蔽效应使得多普勒频移增大、谱宽变窄. 本研究对深入理解动态海面散射场频谱特性具有一定参考意义.     

Estimation of sea clutter inherent Doppler spectrum from shipborne S-band radar sea echo

Measurement of shipborne radar sea echo is instrumental in collecting the sea clutter data in open sea areas. However,the ship movement would introduce an extra Doppler component into the spectrum of the sea clutter, so the sea clutter inherent spectrum must be estimated prior to investigating the sea clutter Doppler characteristics from the shipborne radar sea echo. In this paper we show some results about a shipborne sea clutter measurement experiment that was conducted in the South China Sea in a period between 2017 and 2018; abundant clutter data have been collected by using a shipborne S-band clutter measurement radar. To obtain the sea clutter inherent Doppler spectrum from these data, an estimation method, based on the mapping relationship between the shipborne clutter spectrum and the inherent clutter spectrum, is proposed. This method is validated by shipborne clutter data sets under the same measuring conditions except for the ship speed. Using this method, the characteristics of the Doppler spectrum lineshapes in the South China Sea are calculated and analyzed according to different sea states, wave directions, and radar resolutions, which can be instrumental in designing the radar target detection algorithms.     

并行时域电场积分方程方法在动态海面二维电磁散射中的应用

采用并行时域电场积分方程方法对动态海面的二维瞬态散射特性进行研究。为了保证该方法的后期稳定性,时间基函数和空间基函数采用二阶B样条基函数和三角基函数,矩阵元素采用时间维度精确解析、空间奇异部分精确解析进行计算;为了减少对无限海面进行截断带来的边缘效应,入射波采用锥形调制高斯脉冲;结合信息传递接口（MPI）技术和稀疏矩阵压缩存储技术,对不同时刻的海面进行瞬态散射分析。大量的数值算例证明了该方法在计算动态海面的二维瞬态散射问题时的正确性,还可以保证后期的稳定性,提高计算效率,减少对计算机内存需求。     

Field transformational approach to three-dimensional scattering from two-dimensional rough surfaces

In 1985, Tappert and Nghiem-Phu introduced a field-transformation technique for computing rough surface scattering from a parabolic equation model utilizing a split-step Fourier marching algorithm. The approach was based on a two-dimensional parabolic equation with a standard operator approximation that was capable of computing scattering from a one-dimensional rough surface. Although this approach has been used extensively and effectively, extensions of this approach to higher order approximations or three-dimensional propagation have only recently been investigated. In this work, the expressions that incorporate higher-order approximations and three-dimensional scattering from two-dimensional rough surfaces are presented. The implications of some computationally necessary approximations are also provided.     

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     

Calculations of the Mueller matrix for scattering of light from two-dimensional surfaces

Abstract

Results are presented of an analysis of the Mueller matrix parameters for the problem of scattering of light from two-dimensional rough surfaces. The Mueller matrix fully describes the polarization properties of the scattered light. It is shown, using symmetry arguments, that for normal incidence it is necessary to measure the Mueller matrix terms in only one plane, thus reducing the amount of data to be analysed. Examples of the form of the Mueller matrix terms are calculated using a simple ray-trace approach.     

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.     

A time domain rough surface scattering model based on wedge diffraction: application to low-frequency backscattering from two-dimensional sea surfaces

A time domain method for calculating the acoustic impulse response of impenetrable, rough, two-dimensional (2D) surfaces is presented. The method is based on an extension of the wedge assemblage (WA) method to 2D surfaces and objects. Like the WA method for one-dimensional (1D) surfaces, the approach for 2D surfaces uses Biot's and Tolstoy's exact solution for the impulse response of an infinite impenetrable wedge [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 29, 381-391 (1957)] as its fundamental building block. The validity of the WA method for backscattering from 2D sea surfaces is assessed through comparisons with calculations based on Milder's operator expansion (OE) method [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 89, 529-541 (1991)]. Average intensities for backscattering from 2D fully developed seas (20 m/s wind speed) were computed by the WA and OE methods using 50 surface realizations and compared at 11 frequencies between 100 and 200 Hz. A single, moderately low grazing angle of incidence (20 degrees) and several scattered grazing angles (90 degrees, 45 degrees, 20 degrees , and 10 ) were considered. Excellent overall agreement between the two models was obtained. The utility of the WA method as a tool to describe the physics of the scattering process is also discussed.     

沙丘粗糙面的二次极化电磁散射

研究了新月形沙丘粗糙面的二次极化电磁散射. 结合射线追踪理论, 由一次散射面元的反射场照射到二次散射面元, 采用基尔霍夫近似推导了二次散射面元的二次极化散射场. 计算结果表明二次极化散射结果在特定的角度和类型范围内有显著影响. 在电磁波射向背风坡时可以发现其同极化散射截面在入射角较大时大于其他入射方向的结果, 入射角在休止角附近时的交叉极化散射截面出现峰值, 以及前后狭长沙丘之间的二次极化散射特别突出. 本文结果可用于反演分析沙漠地区的风场信息. 关键词： 新月形沙丘 二次极化散射 射线追踪 休止角     

Design of two-dimensional random surfaces with specified scattering properties

A method is proposed for designing a two-dimensional randomly rough Dirichlet surface that, when illuminated at normal incidence, scatters a scalar plane wave with a specified angular distribution of its intensity. The method is validated by computer simulation calculations.