Study on electromagnetic backscattering and Doppler spectrum of a moving spherical target above time-varying sea surface

Abstract

The surface electric current of the sea surface and the first-order scattering field from the spherical target were obtained by employing Physical Optics method and Mie theory, respectively. The backscattering field of the time-evolving sea surface was calculated by using Kirchhoff Approximation. Meanwhile, by taking the advantage of a newly developed technique that utilizes the reciprocity theorem, the difficulty in formulating the secondary coupling scattering fields from the spherical target above the sea surface was reduced. The dependence of the secondary coupling backscattering field on the size and the position of the spherical target was discussed, and the characteristic of the Doppler spectrum of the composite backscattering field with different incident angles was analyzed in detail.