Composite Scattering Study of Layered Rough Surface withTarget based on CCIA

In this paper, a fast Cross Coupling iterative Approach (CCIA) is proposed for studying the composite scattering of the layered rough surfaces with buried target, which uses forward backward method (FBM) to solve the electric field integral equations (EFIE) of the layered rough surface and bi-conjugate gradient method (BI-CG) to solve the EFIE of the target, and the interaction between the rough surface and the target is achieved by updating the excitation term. The algorithm is applied to calculate the composite scattering coefficients of the rough surface with a buried target, the results match with those of the traditional numerical algorithm MOM while the error can be reduced to 10−3 by 6 iterations, and the convergence speed and calculation accuracy meet the requirements. The composite scattering coefficients and Angular Correlation Function (ACF) amplitudes of layered rough surface and dielectric targets with different conditions are calculated, and the effects of various factors such as target size and burial depth on the composite scattering characteristics are discussed. It is found that the buried targets will have a great influence on the scattering characteristics, weakening or neglecting the coupling between them will lead to larger errors. Moreover, the results show that ACF can suppress scattering from rough surfaces well, making the scattering characteristics of the target more obvious, which is important for detecting underground targets.