Electromagnetic Absorption, Scattering, and Propagation
Course Objective: To provide a baseline level of understanding necessary for successful research and development using electromagnetic waves in remote sensing and telecommunications. The course covers a number of aspects of EM waves across the spectrum from radio to optical frequencies, including the theory of propagation in deterministic and random media, scattering from discrete and continuous media, earth-space propagation in plasmas, and radiative transfer theory. Applications are found in terrestrial and satellite communications links and in both active remote sensing systems such as radars and lidars and passive systems such as radiometers and interferometers. Essential material for fixed and mobile radio communications systems, geophysical probing, meteorological, oceanic, and astronomical observation, vehicle detection and location, and intelligence gathering.