Modeling of propagation of electromagnetic waves in forest media. Application to detection and localization of targets.

Youmni Ziadé (1) , Hui Nguyen (1) , Hélène Roussel (1) , Walid Tabbara (1, 2)

1 L2S - Laboratoire des signaux et systèmes
2 SONDRA - Sondra, CentraleSupélec, Université Paris-Saclay (COmUE)

In this paper, we study the propagation of electromagnetic waves in forest media in UHF and VHF frequency bands. We propose a full wave coherent method that allows computing the electric field everywhere in the medium and for any kind of transmitting antenna. Using the data given by the model, we develop two methods in order to detect and localize a metallic target in the medium. The first one is based a monostatic SAR imaging algorithm, the second one is based on a DORT method associated with MUSIC algorithm

Domains: Engineering Sciences [physics]; Electromagnetism

Youmni Ziadé, Hui Nguyen, Hélène Roussel, Walid Tabbara. Modeling of propagation of electromagnetic waves in forest media. Application to detection and localization of targets.. 2006 2nd International Conference on Information & Communication Technologies (ICTTA 06), Apr 2006, Damas, Syria. ⟨10.1109/ICTTA.2006.1684734⟩. ⟨hal-00278544⟩