ABSTRACT

Fluctuations in scattered waves limit the performance of imaging and remote sensing systems that operate on all wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum. To better understand these fluctuations, Modeling Fluctuations in Scattered Waves provides a practical guide to the phenomenology, mathematics, and simulation of non-Gaussian noise models and d

chapter 1|14 pages

Statistical Preliminaries

chapter 2|20 pages

The Gaussian Process

chapter 3|18 pages

Processes Derived from Gaussian Noise

chapter 7|28 pages

Scattering by Fractal Phase Screens

chapter 8|16 pages

Other Phase Screen Models

chapter 11|16 pages

Vector Scattering: Polarization Fluctuations

chapter 12|16 pages

K-Distributed Noise

chapter 13|26 pages

Measurement and Detection

chapter 14|26 pages

Numerical Techniques