Abstract
A method of moments (MoM) analysis is developed for electromagnetic scattering from a dielectric body of revolution (BOR) embedded in a layered medium (the half-space problem constituting a special case). The layered-medium parameters can be lossy and dispersive, of interest for simulating soil. To make such an analysis tractable for the wide-band (short-pulse) applications of interest here, we have employed the method of complex images to evaluate the Sommerfeld integrals characteristic of the dyadic layered-medium Green's function. Example wide-band scattering results are presented, wherein fundamental wave phenomenology is elucidated. Of particular interest, we consider wide-band scattering from a model plastic mine, buried in soil, with the soil covered by a layer of snow.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Article number | 768799 |
| Pages (from-to) | 610-619 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Apr 1 1999 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Wideband
- Electromagnetic scattering
- Dielectrics
- Soil
- Moment methods
- Electromagnetic analysis
- Dispersion
- Image analysis
- Green's function methods
- Plastics