5 January 2022 Modeling of input signals reflected from coastal zones and observed by small-sized radar systems from UAVs
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Abstract

When developing modern unmanned aerial vehicle-based onboard small-sized radar systems, which are used for monitoring of coastal zones for their operational and environmental purposes, adequate mathematical models are needed of reflections from the corresponding resolution elements of the underlying surfaces, located on the water–land interface. We consider the development of some mathematical models for such applications. We analyze two modern approaches used in developing mathematical models for input signals reflected both separately from the terrestrial and marine surfaces and simultaneously from two aforementioned surfaces at once. A statistical approach and two families of distributions are chosen for modeling the signals, which enable synthesis of efficient algorithms for modeling the fluxes of random variables. The input signals of sea surface reflections are approximated by the log-normal law, while the reflections from the land surface are approximated by the Weibull distribution. For edge-coastal modeling, it is proposed to use the law of distribution of the vector sum of the flux of random variables comprising the input signals reflected from elementary land and sea areas that simultaneously fall within the corresponding resolution element. A highlight of the models developed is the consideration of both the probability distribution laws of the reflected signals and their correlation-spectral characteristics between resolution elements, as well as the anisotropy of reflections when monitoring surfaces from several angles. The presented mathematical models are consistent with experimental data sets of reflections, obtained from coastal zones. The development of coastal reflection models and corresponding modeling algorithms reduces the required number of actual field tests and saves time for implementation of monitoring systems, and hence, limits the overhead of this implementation.

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Vadim A. Nenashev, Dmitry A. Shepeta, and Viktor I. Isakov "Modeling of input signals reflected from coastal zones and observed by small-sized radar systems from UAVs," Journal of Applied Remote Sensing 16(1), 012015 (5 January 2022). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JRS.16.012015
Received: 30 July 2021; Accepted: 17 December 2021; Published: 5 January 2022
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KEYWORDS
Radar

Mathematical modeling

Coastal modeling

Reflection

Systems modeling

Correlation function

Algorithm development

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