PIERS 1997
Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium
July 7-11, 1997
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Schlumberger-Doll Research


Session 2P2, Tuesday, July 8, PM, Eastroom
Rough Surface Scattering II

Organizers: Valerian I. Tatarskii and Alexander G. Voronovich
Chairs: Valerian I. Tatarskii and Alexander G. Voronovich

13:20 Improved tilt-invariant approximation in the theory of wave scattering by the rough surface
M. I. Charnotskii, Sci. and Tech. Corporation; V. I. Tatarskii, U. of Colorado/CIRES and NOAA/ERL/ETL, Boulder, CO, USA



13:40 General rough-surface backscatter and propagation dependences in the grazing limit
D. E. Barrick, CODAR Ocean Sensors, Los Altos, CA, USA



14:00 Low-grazing angle Doppler spectra for two-scale sea surface with curvatures
A. G. Voronovich, V. U. Zavorotny, U. of Colorado/NOAA, Boulder, CO, USA



14:20 An improved formulation of coherent forward scatter from random rough surfaces
D. M. Milder, Arete Associates, Sherman Oaks, CA, USA



14:40 Scattering from an infinite rough surface
J. A. DeSanto, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, USA; P. A. Martin, U. of Manchester, UK



15:00 Multiple scattering of waves propagating at grazing incidence over a statistically rough surface
S. Anderson, J. Praschifka, DSTO, Salisbury, Australia; I. M. Fuks, National Academy of Sci. of Ukraine, Kharkhov, Ukraine



15:20 Coffee Break



15:40 Range-resolved backscatter from steepening waves
D. Holliday, L. L. DeRaad, Jr., G. J. St-Cyr, Logicon R&D Associates, Los Angeles, CA, USA



16:00 Use of a non-Gaussian statistical model of rough surfaces in wave scattering theories
V. V. Tatarskii, V. I. Tatarskii, U. of Colorado/CIRES and NOAA/ERL/ETL, Boulder, CO, USA



16:20 Scattering of electromagnetic waves from a random grating with a localized defect
A. V. Shchegrov, A. A. Maradudin, U. of California, Irvine, CA, USA



16:40 Scattering of light and other electromagnetic waves from a body buried beneath a highly rough random surface
A. Madrazo, Inst. de Ciencia de Materiales, Madrid, Spain; M. Nieto-Vesperinas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Madrid, Spain



17:00 Scattering enhancement in closed systems with rough boundaries
V. Freilikher, E. Kanzieper, Jack and Pearl Resnick Inst. of Advanced Tech., Ramat-Gan, Israel



17:20 Statistics of the radar signal reflected by the sea surface - application to the remote sensing
M. A. Gilman, Inst. for Problems in Mechanics, Moscow, Russia; T. L. Tkachenko, Moscow State U., Russia; A. S. Shamaev, Inst. for Problems in Mechanics, Moscow, Russia