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Bistatic scattering characteristics of dense randomly distributed cylinders
Author(s) -
Clayton Craig W.,
Kuga Yasuo
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
radio science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.371
H-Index - 84
eISSN - 1944-799X
pISSN - 0048-6604
DOI - 10.1029/95rs01101
Subject(s) - scattering , radiative transfer , cylinder , bistatic radar , computational physics , physics , optics , dielectric , radar , materials science , mathematics , geometry , telecommunications , computer science , quantum mechanics , radar imaging
To study the fundamental characteristics of electromagnetic wave scattering of densely distributed random media, we conducted extensive experiments using millimeter‐wave bistatic radar and dielectric cylinders of different sizes and concentrations. Experiments were run with fractional volume densities of 10% and 30% along with the highly dense case. It is shown that for ka ≈ 6, the dense and highly dense scattering resembles the single scattering characteristics of the cylinder. For ka ≈ 3 the dense case resembles the single scattering case, but the highly dense case exhibits much different behavior. The experimental results were compared with second‐order radiative transfer theory.