Technical Program

WE-UF.1P: Random and Complex Media II

Session Type: Oral
Time: Wednesday, July 12, 13:20 - 17:00
Location: Golden Hill AB
Session Chairs: Akira Ishimaru, University of Washington and Saba Mudaliar, Air Force Research Laboratory
 
13:20 - 13:40
WE-UF.1P.1: MODELING SNOWPACK SCATTERING AND EMISSION USING A FULLY COHERENT MODEL
         Shurun Tan, Jiyue Zhu, Leung Tsang, University of Michigan, United States; Son Nghiem, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States
 
13:40 - 14:00
WE-UF.1P.2: EFFICIENT CALCULATION OF CBFS FOR THE MODELING OF SCATTERING BY COMPLEX-SHAPED SNOW AGGREGATES
         Ines Fenni, Ziad S. Haddad, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Hélène Roussel, L2E UPMC, France; Raj Mittra, University of Central Florida, United States
 
14:00 - 14:20
WE-UF.1P.3: CASPER EAST CAMPAIGN LES-BASED RF SCINTILLATION STUDY
         Swagato Mukherjee, Caglar Yardim, The Ohio State University, United States; Tao Cao, Lian Shen, University of Minnesota, United States
 
14:20 - 14:40
WE-UF.1P.4: SMALL SCALE SURFACE ROUGHNESS EFFECTS ON ENHANCED BACKSCATTER FROM A LAYER OF VEGETATION
         Avinash Sharma, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, United States; Roger Lang, The George Washington University, United States
 
14:40 - 15:00
WE-UF.1P.5: DESIGNING SOURCES FOR ENHANCEMENT OF EARLY-TIME DIFFUSION IN SHORT PULSE PROPAGATION THROUGH RANDOM PARTICULATE MEDIA
         Elizabeth Bleszynski, Marek Bleszynski, Thomas Jaroszewicz, Monopole Research, United States
 
15:00 - 15:20 Break
 
15:20 - 15:40
WE-UF.1P.6: AN OPERATIONAL APPROACH TO SCATTERING OF OBJECTS IN COMPLEX ENVIRONMENT
         Saba Mudaliar, Air Force Research Laboratory, United States
 
15:40 - 16:00
WE-UF.1P.7: SCATTERING OF ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES BY VEGETATION BASED ON NUMERICAL 3D SOLUTIONS OF MAXWELL EQUATIONS
         Huanting Huang, Leung Tsang, University of Michigan, United States; Tien-Hao Liao, Eni Njoku, Andreas Colliander, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, United States; Kung-Hau Ding, Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson AFB, United States
 
16:00 - 16:20
WE-UF.1P.8: SAR IMAGES SIMULATION OF TROPICAL FORESTS AT P AND L BAND
         Jean-Pascal Monvoisin, Pierre Borderies, Vincent Gobin, Pascale Dubois-Fernandez, ONERA, France; Dominique Dubucq, Cedric Taillandier, TOTAL, France
 
16:20 - 16:40
WE-UF.1P.9: A NEW CONVENIENT TOOL FOR ICE SHEETS EXPLORATION THE FRACTAL DIMENSION
         Gerardo Di Martino, Alessio Di Simone, Giorgio Franceschetti, Daniele Riccio, Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy; Stephen Wall, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Italy
 
16:40 - 17:00
WE-UF.1P.10: MONTE CARLO SIMULATION OF UNDERWATER WIRELESS OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS IN TURBULENT ENVIRONMENTS
         Zahra Vali, Asghar Gholami, Isfahan University of Technology, Iran; David Michelson, University of British Columbia, Canada; Zabih Ghassemlooy, Northumbria University, United Kingdom; Masood Omoomi, Isfahan University of Technology, Iran; Hamed Noori, University of British Columbia, Canada