Applications in Remote Sensing Using the Method of Ordered Multiple Interactions
| dc.contributor.author | Westin, Benjamin Alexander | en |
| dc.contributor.committeechair | Brown, Gary S. | en |
| dc.contributor.committeemember | Kohler, Werner E. | en |
| dc.contributor.committeemember | Davis, William A. | en |
| dc.contributor.committeemember | Scales, Wayne A. | en |
| dc.contributor.committeemember | Guido, Louis J. | en |
| dc.contributor.department | Electrical and Computer Engineering | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2013-04-25T08:00:16Z | en |
| dc.date.available | 2013-04-25T08:00:16Z | en |
| dc.date.issued | 2013-04-24 | en |
| dc.description.abstract | The Method of Ordered Multiple Interactions provides a numerical solution to the integral<br />equations describing surface scattering which is both computationally efficient and reliably<br />convergent. The method has been applied in a variety of ways to solving the electromagnetic<br />scattering from perfectly-conducting rough surfaces. A desire to more accurately predict<br />the scattering from natural terrain has led to the representation of the surface material as<br />penetrable instead of conductive.<br /><br />For this purpose, the Method of Ordered Multiple Interactions is applied to numerically<br />solve the electromagnetic scattering from randomly-rough dielectric surfaces. A primary<br />consequence of the penetrable surface material is the introduction of a pair of coupled integral equations in place of the single integral equation used to solve the problem with a perfectly conducting surface. The method is tested and analyzed by developing independent scattering solutions for canonical cases in a transform domain and by comparing results with solutions from other techniques.<br /><br />The dielectric implementation of the Method of Ordered Multiple Interactions is used to solve<br />the electromagnetic scattering from a class of randomly-rough dielectric surfaces. This allows<br />for the characterization of the effect of a number of transmitter and surface parameters in the<br />scattering problem, observing bistatically and also specifically in the backscatter direction.<br /><br />MOMI is then applied as a method to examine subsurface penetration characteristics from<br />a similar family of rough surfaces. Characteristics of the environment parameters and the<br />scattered field itself are examined, and the numerical challenges associated with observing<br />beneath the surface are identified and addressed.<br /><br />The Method of Ordered Multiple Interactions is then incorporated as a major component of<br />a larger solution which computes the total scattering when a dielectric object is buried just<br />beneath the rough surface. This hyrid approach uses MOMI and the Method of Moments to<br />iteratively account for multiple interactions between the target and the dielectric interface,<br />enabling the study of scattering from the combined environment of a rough surface and the<br />embedded object, as well as the individual scattering events which combine to form the<br />steady-state solution. | en |
| dc.description.degree | Ph. D. | en |
| dc.format.medium | ETD | en |
| dc.identifier.other | vt_gsexam:606 | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/19346 | en |
| dc.publisher | Virginia Tech | en |
| dc.rights | In Copyright | en |
| dc.rights.uri | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ | en |
| dc.subject | Computational Electromagnetics | en |
| dc.subject | Rough Surface Scattering | en |
| dc.subject | Microwave Remote Sensing | en |
| dc.subject | Method of Ordered Multiple Interactions | en |
| dc.title | Applications in Remote Sensing Using the Method of Ordered Multiple Interactions | en |
| dc.type | Dissertation | en |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Electrical Engineering | en |
| thesis.degree.grantor | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | en |
| thesis.degree.level | doctoral | en |
| thesis.degree.name | Ph. D. | en |
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