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  • Open Access
376 Views
22 Pages

22 January 2026

Certain types of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) represent convenient platforms for remote sensing observation as well as low-altitude targets that are themselves monitored by other devices. In order to study remote sensing grayscale and radar cross-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
955 Views
27 Pages

30 April 2025

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) recognition systems often need to collect new data and update the network accordingly. However, the network faces the challenge of catastrophic forgetting, where previously learned knowledge might be lost during the inc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
7,374 Views
21 Pages

24 August 2020

Based on the detection platform of space-borne radar (SBR), the dynamic electromagnetic (EM) scattering characteristics of a hypersonic vehicle covered with plasma sheath are calculated and analyzed by the physical optics (PO) method. Using the angle...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
960 Views
25 Pages

15 September 2025

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) target recognition tasks face the dilemma of limited training samples. The fusion of target scattering features improves the ability of the network to perceive discriminative information and reduces the dependence on tr...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,687 Views
16 Pages

16 December 2021

It is very common to apply convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to synthetic aperture radar (SAR) automatic target recognition (ATR). However, most of the SAR ATR methods using CNN mainly use the image features of SAR images and make little use of th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
4,415 Views
14 Pages

Nonlinear electromagnetic inverse scattering is an imaging technique with quantitative reconstruction and high resolution. Compared with conventional tomography, it takes into account the more realistic interaction between the internal structure of t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,521 Views
26 Pages

24 December 2022

Polarimetric decomposition is an effective way to analyze the scattering mechanism of targets in polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) images. However, the analysis of urban areas is frequently a challenge. Most decomposition methods use a r...

  • Review
  • Open Access
23 Citations
24,334 Views
21 Pages

An Overview of the Compton Scattering Calculation

  • Chen-Kai Qiao,
  • Jian-Wei Wei and
  • Lin Chen

10 May 2021

The Compton scattering process plays significant roles in atomic and molecular physics, condensed matter physics, nuclear physics and material science. It could provide useful information on the electromagnetic interaction between light and matter. S...

  • Article
  • Open Access
524 Views
27 Pages

Boosting SAR ATR Trustworthiness via ERFA: An Electromagnetic Reconstruction Feature Alignment Method

  • Yuze Gao,
  • Dongying Li,
  • Weiwei Guo,
  • Jianyu Lin,
  • Yiren Wang and
  • Wenxian Yu

28 November 2025

Deep learning-based synthetic aperture radar (SAR) automatic target recognition (ATR) methods exhibit a tendency to overfit specific operating conditions—such as radar parameters and background clutter—which frequently leads to high sensi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,293 Views
21 Pages

PA-MSFormer: A Phase-Aware Multi-Scale Transformer Network for ISAR Image Enhancement

  • Jiale Huang,
  • Xiaoyong Li,
  • Lei Liu,
  • Xiaoran Shi and
  • Feng Zhou

2 September 2025

Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar (ISAR) imaging plays a crucial role in reconnaissance and target monitoring. However, the presence of uncertain factors often leads to indistinct component visualization and significant noise contamination in imaging...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,870 Views
20 Pages

2 August 2022

The micro-movement feature is recognized as one of the practical features of space target recognition in academic circles. The separation of the micro-Doppler curve of the scattering center is the key to feature extraction and parameter estimation, w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,212 Views
19 Pages

19 December 2018

The anisotropic characteristic reflects discriminating features of the geometry of a scattering center. In this study, we propose a novel method based on the iterative re-weighted Tikhonov regularization (IRWTR) to achieve the extraction of anisotrop...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,420 Views
20 Pages

2 June 2023

Electromagnetic (EM) scattering of sea surface may exhibit sea-spikespikes when there exist breaking waves. As sea-spikes are usually mistaken for targets, the investigation of EM scattering characteristics and high-range resolution profiles (HRRPs)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,771 Views
18 Pages

Micro-Motion Parameter Extraction of Multi-Scattering-Point Target Based on Vortex Electromagnetic Wave Radar

  • Lijun Bu,
  • Yongzhong Zhu,
  • Yijun Chen,
  • Xiaoou Song,
  • Yufei Yang and
  • Yadan Zang

22 November 2022

In addition to traditional linear Doppler shift, the angular Doppler shift in vortex electromagnetic wave (VEMW) radar systems carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) can provide more accurate target identification micro-motion parameters, especially...

  • Article
  • Open Access
277 Views
29 Pages

13 January 2026

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR), with its unique imaging principle and technical characteristics, has significant advantages in surface observation and thus has been widely applied in tasks such as object detection and target classification. However,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,376 Views
15 Pages

3 November 2021

A comprehensive electromagnetic scattering model for ship wakes on the sea surface is proposed to study the synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery for ship wakes. Our model considers a coupling of various wave systems, including Kelvin wake, turbulen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
950 Views
27 Pages

19 July 2025

As a novel system, multi-dimensional space joint-observation SAR (MSJosSAR) can simultaneously acquire target information across multiple dimensions such as frequency, angle, and polarization. This capability facilitates a more comprehensive understa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,244 Views
10 Pages

29 December 2022

Light propagation through magnetic media with ellipsoidal inclusions much smaller than the light wavelength was investigated theoretically. It is assumed that the ellipsoidal inclusions have the same orientation but are randomly distributed inside th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,155 Views
27 Pages

Multipath and Deep Learning-Based Detection of Ultra-Low Moving Targets Above the Sea

  • Zhaolong Wang,
  • Xiaokuan Zhang,
  • Weike Feng,
  • Binfeng Zong,
  • Tong Wang,
  • Cheng Qi and
  • Xixi Chen

21 December 2024

An intelligent approach is proposed and investigated in this paper for the detection of ultra-low-altitude sea-skimming moving targets for airborne pulse Doppler radar. Without suppressing interferences, the proposed method uses both target and multi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,175 Views
17 Pages

20 August 2020

This paper studies inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR) image matching and three-dimensional (3D) scattering imaging based on extracted dominant scatterers. In the condition of a long baseline between two radars, it is easy for obvious rotation, s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,599 Views
18 Pages

16 January 2025

Polarimetric radar systems play a crucial role in enhancing microwave remote sensing and target identification by providing a refined understanding of electromagnetic scattering mechanisms. This study introduces the concept of polarization scattering...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,482 Views
26 Pages

7 February 2022

An efficient physical optics (PO) calculation method is proposed for the electromagnetic (EM) scattering of electrically large targets coated with magnetized plasma characterized by asymmetric tensor dielectric parameters. The outer surface of the ar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,132 Views
15 Pages

The Dirac electron is considered as a particle-like solution consistent with its own Kerr–Newman (KN) gravitational field. In our previous works we considered the regularized by López KN solution as a bag-like soliton model formed from the Higgs fiel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,224 Views
20 Pages

Echo-Level SAR Imaging Simulation of Wakes Excited by a Submerged Body

  • Yan Jia,
  • Shuyi Liu,
  • Yongqing Liu,
  • Limin Zhai,
  • Yifan Gong and
  • Xiangkun Zhang

7 February 2024

The paper introduces a numerical simulation method for Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imaging of submerged body wakes by integrating hydrodynamics, electromagnetic scattering, and SAR imaging simulation. This work is helpful for better understanding...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,610 Views
25 Pages

Effects of Plant Crown Shape on Microwave Backscattering Coefficients of Vegetation Canopy

  • Xiangchen Liu,
  • Yun Shao,
  • Long Liu,
  • Kun Li,
  • Jingyuan Wang,
  • Shuo Li,
  • Jinning Wang and
  • Xuexiao Wu

21 November 2021

A microwave scattering model is a powerful tool for determining relationships between vegetation parameters and backscattering characteristics. The crown shape of the vegetation canopy is an important parameter in forestry and affects the microwave s...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,168 Views
16 Pages

14 December 2023

In this paper, we present a tailored shooting and bouncing ray (SBR) method for the fast solution of electromagnetic (EM) scattering from a moving target. And, the micro-Doppler features of the moving target are investigated using a time-frequency an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,831 Views
11 Pages

Microwave Analysis of Scattered and Absorbed Powers of Semiconductor and Metamaterial Cylinder Structures

  • Juozas Bučinskas,
  • Raimondas Pomarnacki,
  • Darius Plonis,
  • Šarūnas Paulikas,
  • Giedrius Tušinskis and
  • Liudmila Nickelson

15 January 2019

Here is presented our numerical investigations based on the rigorous solution of the Maxwell’s equations for analyses of absorbed and scattered powers of a semiconductor-metamaterial array with a window defect. The array structure consists of a...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,504 Views
9 Pages

Plasmonic nanostructures with a high density of confined areas with high local electromagnetic fields (hot spots) are sine qua nonto increase the efficiency of surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS). These nanostructures can be used both to ident...

  • Article
  • Open Access
549 Views
16 Pages

Research on the Composite Scattering Characteristics of a Rough-Surfaced Vehicle over Stratified Media

  • Chenzhao Yan,
  • Xincheng Ren,
  • Jianyu Huang,
  • Yuqing Wang and
  • Xiaomin Zhu

22 July 2025

To meet the requirements for radar echo acquisition and feature extraction from stratified media and rough-surfaced targets, a vehicle was geometrically modelled in CAD. Monte Carlo techniques were applied to generate the rough interfaces at air&ndas...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
168 Citations
24,056 Views
22 Pages

26 January 2018

Light scattering by a small spherical particle, a central topic for electromagnetic scattering theory, is here considered. In this short review, some of the basic features of its resonant scattering behavior are covered. First, a general physical pic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
10,367 Views
22 Pages

Forward Scatter Radar for Air Surveillance: Characterizing the Target-Receiver Transition from Far-Field to Near-Field Regions

  • Marta Tecla Falconi,
  • Davide Comite,
  • Alessandro Galli,
  • Debora Pastina,
  • Pierfrancesco Lombardo and
  • Frank Silvio Marzano

8 January 2017

A generalized electromagnetic model is presented in order to predict the response of forward scatter radar (FSR) systems for air-target surveillance applications in both far-field and near-field conditions. The relevant scattering problem is tackled...

  • Article
  • Open Access
62 Citations
7,874 Views
15 Pages

21 December 2017

The frequency of terahertz radar ranges from 0.1 THz to 10 THz, which is higher than that of microwaves. Multi-modal signals, including high-resolution range profile (HRRP) and Doppler signatures, can be acquired by the terahertz radar system. These...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
12,393 Views
27 Pages

Studies of Scattering, Reflectivity, and Transmitivity in WBAN Channel: Feasibility of Using UWB

  • Md. Humaun Kabir,
  • Kazi Ashrafuzzaman,
  • M. Sanaullah Chowdhury and
  • Kyung Sup Kwak

2 June 2010

The Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN) is one of the fledging paradigms that the next generation of wireless systems is sprouting towards. Among them, a more specific category is the Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) used for health monitoring. On...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,399 Views
15 Pages

14 November 2022

Three-dimensional (3-D) super-resolution microwave imaging of human brain is a typical electromagnetic (EM) inverse scattering problem with high contrast. It is a challenge for the traditional schemes based on deterministic or stochastic inversion me...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,573 Views
22 Pages

Hyperspectral Imaging Tera Hertz System for Soil Analysis: Initial Results

  • Volker Dworak,
  • Benjamin Mahns,
  • Jörn Selbeck,
  • Robin Gebbers and
  • Cornelia Weltzien

3 October 2020

Analyzing soils using conventional methods is often time consuming and costly due to their complexity. These methods require soil sampling (e.g., by augering), pretreatment of samples (e.g., sieving, extraction), and wet chemical analysis in the labo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,124 Views
24 Pages

24 March 2025

Due to the huge differences in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) image features of the same target under different observing aspects, the demand for constructing multi-aspect SAR datasets of various typical targets is becoming increasingly urgent with t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,954 Views
18 Pages

23 April 2018

This paper proposes a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) automatic target recognition (ATR) method by target reconstruction based on attributed scattering centers (ASCs). The extracted ASCs can effectively describe the electromagnetic scattering characte...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,295 Views
19 Pages

31 March 2025

Due to the special properties of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images, they are widely used in maritime applications, such as detecting ships at sea. To perform ship detection in SAR images, existing algorithms commonly utilize convolutional neural...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,241 Views
17 Pages

1 August 2024

A characterization of near-field impulse responses based on electromagnetic (EM) near-field data from an EM solver to explore features of the propagation process on a well-known wideband traveling wave antenna—double-slot Vivaldi antenna—...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,022 Views
14 Pages

18 September 2020

Defect size recognition is significant to the evaluation of optical element surface quality. Currently, it’s mainly achieved by the conventional image process, such as threshold segmentation. However, as the defect size gradually approaches the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,790 Views
11 Pages

Dual-Polarized Reconfigurable Manipulation Based on Flexible-Printed Intelligent Reflection Surface

  • Xiaozhe Jia,
  • Hongrui Tan,
  • Xinyu Dong,
  • Fuju Ye,
  • Haoyang Cui and
  • Lei Chen

In the background of 6G communication requiring a high data rate and energy efficiency, global coverage and connectivity, as well as high reliability and low latency, most existing reconfigurable metasurfaces face limitations in flexibility, integrab...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,202 Views
16 Pages

The Role of Micro Breaking of Small-Scale Wind Waves in Radar Backscattering from Sea Surface

  • Irina A. Sergievskaya,
  • Stanislav A. Ermakov,
  • Aleksey V. Ermoshkin,
  • Ivan A. Kapustin,
  • Olga V. Shomina and
  • Alexander V. Kupaev

19 December 2020

The study of the microwave scattering mechanisms of the sea surface is extremely important for the development of radar sensing methods. Some time ago, Bragg (resonance) scattering of electromagnetic waves from the sea surface was proposed as the mai...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,299 Views
16 Pages

8 February 2022

A full-polarimetric ground penetrating radar (FP-GPR) uses an antenna array to detect subsurface anomalies. Compared to the traditional GPR, FP-GPR can obtain more abundant information about the subsurface. However, in field FP-GPR measurements, the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,160 Views
21 Pages

25 August 2022

In this paper, we develop a resolvent method for super-operator equations with applications in quantum optics. Our approach is based on the novel concept of a linear super-operator acting on the Hilbert subspace of vector or scalar linear operators s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
7,552 Views
18 Pages

2 April 2013

This paper presents a fundamental simulation method to generate synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images for moving ocean surfaces. We have designed the simulation based on motion induced modulations and Bragg scattering, which are important features of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,728 Views
25 Pages

Design of a Near-Field Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging System Based on Improved RMA

  • Yongcheng Li,
  • Huaqiang Xu,
  • Jiawei Xu,
  • Hao Chen,
  • Qiying An,
  • Kangming Hou and
  • Jingjing Wang

9 September 2024

Traditional near-field synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging algorithms reveal target features by exploiting signal amplitude and phase information. However, electromagnetic wave propagation is constrained by short distance. Therefore, the spherical...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
1,412 Views
20 Pages

12 March 2025

Artificial metasurfaces can rapidly modulate their electromagnetic scattering properties and the characteristics of echo signals, which can lead to different imaging features in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging results. Based on this, for the f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,910 Views
17 Pages

22 February 2023

The Pandian deposit is a newly discovered contact metasomatic skarn magnetite deposit found in the Cainozoic super-thick overburden on the northwest margin of Luxi Uplift (LXU). Presently, the horizontal scale of the deposit delineated by the potenti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,222 Views
21 Pages

GNSS-Based Multi-Target RDM Simulation and Detection Performance Analysis

  • Jinxing Li,
  • Qi Wang,
  • Meng Wang,
  • Youcheng Wang and
  • Min Zhang

27 July 2025

This paper proposes a novel Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)-based remote sensing method for simulating Radar Doppler Map (RDM) features through joint electromagnetic scattering modeling and signal processing, enabling characteristic paramet...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,846 Views
18 Pages

5 November 2022

This paper proposes a robust method for feature-based matching with potential for application to synthetic aperture radar (SAR) automatic target recognition (ATR). The scarcity of measured SAR data available for training classification algorithms lea...

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