The Theory of Scintillation with Applications in Remote Sensing (repost)

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This book presents a complete theoretical explanation of scintillation with diverse applications. The author's approach provides an algorithmic formulation that admits no intrinsic limitations, and effectively reformulates the theory to take full advantage of readily available modern computational resources. He tightly integrates practical and scientific applications by using modern signal processing and information theoretic structures, and extends the theory to accommodate scattering objects and boundary surfaces.

This book is designed for electromagnetic wave researchers and practitioners as well as students; it will also benefit professors teaching propagation theory and radio wave and optical communication specialists.
The book also offers a complete library of MATLAB codes that will reproduce the book examples. The library includes GPS coordinate manipulations, satellite orbit prediction, and earth mean magnetic field computations. The subect matter is for EM researchers; however, also theory is relevant to geophysics, acoustics, optics and astoronomy

CONTENTS
Preface
1 Introduction
1.1 Electromagnetic Propagation Theory
1.2 Anticipating Scintillation Theory
2 The Forward Propagation Equation
2.1 Weakly Inhomogeneous Media
2.2 Numerical Simulations
3 The Statistical Theory of Scintillation
3.1 Background
3.2 Calculation of Field Moments
3.3 Second-Order Moments
3.4 Fourth-Order Moments
3.5 Intensity Statistics
3.6 Numerical Simulations
3.7 Statistical Theory Limitations
4 Beacon Satellite Scintillation
4.1 Geometric Considerations
4.2 Phase Structure Revisited
4.3 Complex Field Coherence Revisited
4.4 Satellite Orbit and Earth Magnetic Field Calculation
4.5 Examples
4.6 Theory and Simulations
5 System Applications of Scintillation Theory
5.1 An Introduction to Waveforms
5.2 Scintillation Channel Model
5.3 System Performance Analysis
5.4 Scintillation Data Processing
5.5 Scintillation Data Interpretation
5.6 Beacon Satellite Research
6 Scattering and Boundaries
6.1 Embedded Compact Scattering Objects
6.2 Boundary Surfaces
Appendix A
A.1 Far-Field Approximation
A.2 Backscatter
A.3 Anisotropy Transformations
A.4 Wavefront Curvature Correction
A.5 Two-Dimensional Boundary Integrals
References
Index