TY - GEN
T1 - Terrain backscatter and oil sand exploration
T2 - 2014 International Radar Conference, Radar 2014
AU - Ezeoke, Maurice
AU - Fortuny, Cristina Borda
AU - Tong, Kenneth
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 IEEE.
PY - 2014/3/12
Y1 - 2014/3/12
N2 - A barefaced terrain scattering model for oil sand exploration will enable the discrimination of different terrain types using incoherent polarimetric decomposition. We use computer electromagnetic modeling with finite integration techniques and a network analyzer based indoor polarimetric scatterometer to determine and analyze terrain backscatter. The terrain targets vary in dielectric, physical and chemical properties so we investigated their intrinsic material effects on electromagnetic reflectivity prior to obtaining the average normalized radar cross section. We obtain a strong correlation between the models and empirical measurement for co-polar (HH and VV) polarizations at different incident geometry and frequency L-, C- and X-band.
AB - A barefaced terrain scattering model for oil sand exploration will enable the discrimination of different terrain types using incoherent polarimetric decomposition. We use computer electromagnetic modeling with finite integration techniques and a network analyzer based indoor polarimetric scatterometer to determine and analyze terrain backscatter. The terrain targets vary in dielectric, physical and chemical properties so we investigated their intrinsic material effects on electromagnetic reflectivity prior to obtaining the average normalized radar cross section. We obtain a strong correlation between the models and empirical measurement for co-polar (HH and VV) polarizations at different incident geometry and frequency L-, C- and X-band.
KW - average terrain reflectivity
KW - backscatter measurement
KW - computer electromagnetic model
KW - laboratory scatterometersystem
KW - oil sand exploration
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84946693327
U2 - 10.1109/RADAR.2014.7060258
DO - 10.1109/RADAR.2014.7060258
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84946693327
T3 - 2014 International Radar Conference, Radar 2014
BT - 2014 International Radar Conference, Radar 2014
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 13 October 2014 through 17 October 2014
ER -