Properties and Radar Cross-Section of forest fire ash particles at millimeter wave

Author

Ghorbani, Kamran ; Baum, Thomas C. ; Thompson, Lachlan

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng. (SECE), RMIT Univ., Melbourne, VIC, Australia

fYear

2012

fDate

Oct. 29 2012-Nov. 1 2012

Firstpage

1335

Lastpage

1338

Abstract

The investigation of forest fire ash has been presented for the analysis of microwave and millimeter wave radar systems performance. The base complex permittivity is measured with respect to temperature and Radar-Cross Section (RCS) is simulated in order to identify the organic material behavior. The complex permittivity is measured from X-band (8-12GHz) to Ka-Band (26.5-40GHz). Physical material properties are also measured. These include mass, color variations, particle size distributions, and aspect ratio distributions based on exposed temperature. The material properties are then analyzed for their volumetric backscattering capacity using a co-simulated MATLAB - CST-MWS (Microwave Studio) routine. Basic microwave and millimeter wave radar systems performance parameters have been identified for fire particle detection.

Keywords

ash; remote sensing by radar; wildfires; Ka-band; Microwave Studio; X-band; aspect ratio distributions; base complex permittivity; co-simulated MATLAB-CST-MWS routine; color variations; complex permittivity; fire particle detection; forest fire ash particles; microwave analysis; microwave radar system; millimeter wave; millimeter wave radar system; organic material behavior; particle size distributions; physical material properties; radar-cross section; volumetric backscattering capacity; Ash; Atmospheric measurements; Fires; Particle measurements; Permittivity; Radar; Temperature measurement; RCS; bushfire; complex dielectric constant; fire; radar; wildfire;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Conference (EuMC), 2012 42nd European

Conference_Location

Amsterdam

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2215-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-2-87487-026-2

Type

conf

Filename

6459098