Scattering of electromagnetic waves : advanced topics / / Leung Tsang, Jin Au Kong

• Autore: Tsang Leung
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Wiley, c2001
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (432 p.)
• Disciplina: 621.36/78
• Soggetto topico: Electromagnetic waves - Scattering; Physics
• Altri autori: KongJin Au <1942->
• Note generali: "A Wiley-Interscience publication."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: CONTENTS; PREFACE; CHAPTER 1 TWO-DIMENSIONAL RANDOM ROUGH SURFACE SCATTERING BASED ON SMALL PERTURBATION METHOD; 1 Electromagnetic Wave Scattering by a Perfect Electric Conductor; 1.1 Zeroth- and First-Order Solutions; 1.2 Second-Order Solutions; 2 Electromagnetic Wave Scattering by a Dielectric Rough Surface; 2.1 Zeroth- and First-Order Solutions; 2.2 Second-Order Solutions; 3 Coherent Reflection, Emissivities, and Bistatic Scattering Coefficients of Random Dielectric Surfaces; 3.1 Coherent Reflection; 3.2 Emissivities of Four Stokes Parameters; 3.3 Bistatic Scattering Coefficients ; References and Additional ReadingsCHAPTER 2 KIRCHHOFF APPROACH AND RELATED METHODS FOR ROUGH SURFACE SCATTERING; 1 Kirchhoff Approach; 1.1 Perfectly Conducting Rough Surface; 1.2 Dielectric Rough Surfaces; 1.3 Second-Order Slope Corrections; 2 Phase Perturbation Method; 3 Emissivity Based on Composite Surface Model; References and Additional Readings; CHAPTER 3 VOLUME SCATTERING: CASCADE OF LAYERS; 1 Single Scattering Solution of a Thin Layer, Coherent Wave, and Effective Propagation Constant; 2 Transition Operator; 3 Electromagnetic Wave Case of a Thin Layer and Extinction Matrix ; 4 First- and Second-Order Solutions: Incoherent Waves5 Cascading of Layers: From First- and Second-Order Wave Solutions to Radiative Transfer Equation; 6 Effects of Clustering; References and Additional Readings; CHAPTER 4 ANALYTIC WAVE THEORY FOR A MEDIUM WITH PERMITTIVITY FLUCTUATIONS; 1 Dyson's Equation for the Mean Field; 1.1 Bilocal Approximation; 1.2 Nonlinear Approximation; 2 Second Moment of the Field; 2.1 Bethe-Salpeter Equation; 2.2 Energy Conservation; 3 Strong Permittivity Fluctuations; 3.1 Random Medium with Spherically Symmetric Correlation Function ; 3.2 Very Low Frequency Effective Permittivity3.3 Effective Permittivity Under the Bilocal Approximation; 3.4 Backscattering Coefficients; 3.5 Results of Effective Permittivity and Bistatic Coefficients; References and Additional Readings; CHAPTER 5 MULTIPLE SCATTERING THEORY FOR DISCRETE SCATTERERS; 1 Transition Operator; 2 Multiple Scattering Equations; 3 Approximations of Multiple Scattering Equations; 3.1 Configurational Average of Multiple Scattering Equations; 3.2 Effective Field Approximation (EFA, Foldy's Approximation); 3.3 Quasi-crystalline Approximation (QCA) ; 3.4 Coherent Potential (CP)3.5 Quasi-crystalline Approximation with Coherent Potential (QCA-CP); 3.6 Low-Frequency Solutions; 3.7 QCA-CP for Multiple Species of Particles; 4 Ward's Identity and Energy Conservation; 5 Derivation of Radiative Transfer Equation from Ladder Approximation; References and Additional Readings; CHAPTER 6 QUASI-CRYSTALLINE APPROXIMATION IN DENSE MEDIA SCATTERING; 1 Scattering of Electromagnetic Waves from a Half-Space of Dielectric Scatterers-Normal Incidence; 1.1 Coherent Wave Propagation; 1.2 Effective Phase Velocity and Attenuation Rate in the Low-Frequency Limit ; 1.3 Dispersion Relations at Higher Frequencies
• Sommario/riassunto: A timely and authoritative guide to the state of the art of wave scatteringScattering of Electromagnetic Waves offers in three volumes a complete and up-to-date treatment of wave scattering by random discrete scatterers and rough surfaces. Written by leading scientists who have made important contributions to wave scattering over three decades, this new work explains the principles, methods, and applications of this rapidly expanding, interdisciplinary field. It covers both introductory and advanced material and provides students and researchers in remote sensing as well as imaging, op
• Titolo autorizzato: Scattering of electromagnetic waves
• ISBN: 9786610541843; 9781280541841; 1280541849; 9780470351161; 0470351160; 9780471463795; 0471463795; 9780471224273; 0471224278
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9911019868803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Wiley series in remote sensing.