Statistical Modeling of Polarimetric RCS of Road Surfaces for Scattering Simulation and Optimal Antenna Polarization Determination

Incoherent backscattering of mm-waves from natural rough surfaces is considered. A novel method is proposed to determine the statistical properties of surface scattering from range profile measurements. The method is based on modeling the road surface as a grid of uncorrelated scattering elements, described by normalized scattering matrices....

Statistical Polarimetric RCS Model of an Asphalt Road Surface for mm-Wave Automotive Radar

A method for extracting fully polarimetric statistical properties of road surface radar cross sections is presented. This method is subsequently applied to extract radar cross section information from an asphalt road surface. Furthermore, an approach is introduced to synthesise the scattered signal of road surface returns as measured by a radar....