F4  Random and Complex Media

Thursday, January 4  13:20-16:40  Room 135

Session Chairs:  Saba Mudaliar, Akira Ishimaru

13:20  F4-1  THE SINGLE SCATTERING SUBTRACTION METHOD FOR MULTI-FREQUENCY SURFACES

Kevin Diomedi

ECE, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, Blacksburg, VA


13:40  F4-2  A PHYSICS-BASED MODEL FOR THE AMPLITUDE DISTRIBUTION OF BISTATIC SEA CLUTTER

Ahmed M. Balakhder*, Hongkun Li, Joel T. Johnson

Electroscience Laboratory, The Ohio State University, Columbus


14:00  F4-3  MODELING EM WAVE SCATTERING FROM TREE BRANCHES AND LEAVES

Ben Walborn*, Max Bright, Yasuo Kuga, Akira Ishimaru

Electrical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA


14:20  F4-4  JUNO RADIO SCIENCE OBSERVATIONS AND GRAVITY SCIENCE CALIBRATIONS OF IO PLASMA TORUS

Yu-Ming Yang*1, Dustin Buccino1, William F. Folkner1, Kamal Oudrhiri1, Phillip H. Phipps2, Marzia Parisi1, Daniel S. Kahan1

1JPL-NASA, Pasadena, CA
2Boston University, Boston, MA


14:40  F4-5  IMPROVING THE ANGULAR RESOLUTION IN THE EARLY-TIME DIFFUSION IMAGING THROUGH RANDOM MEDIA

Elizabeth Bleszynski*, Marek Bleszynski, Thomas Jaroszewicz

Monopole Research, Thousand Oaks, CA


15:20  F4-6  HIGH ORDER SCATTERING FROM UNDULATIONS ON A CYLINDRICAL SURFACE

Saba Mudaliar*1, Prabavathi Chidambaram2

1Sensors Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Dayton, OH
2P.O. Box 24467, Independent Researcher, Huber Heights, OH


15:40  F4-7  SCATTERING FROM A DISTRIBUTION OF ROUGH PLATES

Max Bright*, Yasuo Kuga, Akira Ishimaru

Electrical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA


16:00  F4-8  STUDY OF SMAP HIGH RESOLUTION DATA OVER HURRICANES USING EMPIRICAL AND PHYSICS-BASED MODELING

Shanka N. Wijesundara*, Joel T. Johnson

ElectroScience Laboratory, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio


16:20  F4-9  ENSEMBLE DETECTION ANALYSIS FOR CHARACTERIZING NON-STATIONARY PROCESSES

Mustafa Aksoy*1, Paul E. Racette2

1University at Albany, SUNY, Albany, NY
2NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD