Electromagnetic modelling of ship classification in OTHR

Author

Chen, Cong ; Gao, Huotao

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electron. Inf., Wuhan Univ., Wuhan

fYear

2008

fDate

2-5 Nov. 2008

Firstpage

717

Lastpage

720

Abstract

Because of the Faraday rotation effect in the ionosphere, the elliptical polarization high frequency electromagnetic wave is used to simulate the sky wave to illuminate the ship targets. The half space FDTD method is utilized to model the ship targets on ocean which have the similar structures. The backscattered instantaneous polarization information of the targets can help to classify targets. The computer simulation results show this method not only can classify them, but also can distinguish the targets motion direction.

Keywords

electromagnetic wave polarisation; electromagnetic wave scattering; finite difference time-domain analysis; oceanographic techniques; remote sensing by radar; ships; Faraday rotation effect; OTHR; backscattered instantaneous polarization information; electromagnetic modelling; elliptical polarization high frequency electromagnetic wave; half space FDTD method; ionosphere; ship classification; Computational modeling; Computer simulation; Electromagnetic modeling; Electromagnetic scattering; Electromagnetic wave polarization; Finite difference methods; Frequency; Ionosphere; Marine vehicles; Oceans;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas, Propagation and EM Theory, 2008. ISAPE 2008. 8th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Kunming

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2192-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2193-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISAPE.2008.4735315

Filename

4735315