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IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
Volume 47 Number 2, February 1999

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Fractal Analysis of the Signal Scattered from the Sea Surface

Fabrizio Berizzi, Member, IEEE, and Enzo Dalle-Mese, Member, IEEE

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Abstract:

This paper deals with the problem of the electromagnetic scattering from a sea fractal surface. The purpose of the paper is to demonstrate that the sea-scattered signal retains some fractal characteristic of the sea surface. In detail, we analyze the signal scattered from a sea surface modeled by the one-dimensional (1-D) sea-surface fractal profile proposed in [1]. The results show the graphs of the in-phase and quadrature components of the received signal are fractal curves with box-counting fractal dimension equal to the one of the sea profile. These results are validated by presenting and discussing some numerical examples.

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