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Analysis of Electromagnetic Wave Scattering from a Sea Surface Using a Monte-Carlo FDTD Technique

  • Choi Dong-Muk (Research Institute of Industry Technology, Korea Maritime University) ;
  • Kim Che-Young (School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Kyungpook National University) ;
  • Kim Dong-Il (Department of Radio Science & Engineering, Korea Maritime University) ;
  • Jeon Joong-Sung (Research Institute of Industry Technology, Korea Maritime University)
  • Published : 2005.06.01
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Abstract

This paper presents a Monte-Carlo FDTD technique to determine the scattered field from a perfectly conducting surface like a sea surface, from which the useful information on the incoherent pattern tendency could be observed. A one-dimensional sea surface used to analysis scattering was generated using the Pierson-Moskowitz model. In order to verify the numerical results by this technique, these results are compared with those of the small perturbation method, which show a good match between them. To investigate the incoherent pattern tendency involved, the dependence of the back scattering coefficients on the different wind speed(U) is discussed for the back scattering case.

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