NDLI: Radar coverage prediction over ocean: Duct mapping using least squares support vector machines

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Author	Douvenot, R. Fabbro, V. Bourlier, C. Saillard, J.
Copyright Year	2006
Description	Author affiliation: ONERA-DEMR, Toulouse (Douvenot, R.; Fabbro, V.)
Abstract	Sea environment is a complex and changing medium which causes important variations on shipborne radar coverage. Actually, the electromagnetic wave propagation sustains strong refractive effects due to the presence of ducts, and diffraction effects due to the sea surface. However, efficient two-dimensional prediction models for wave propagation based on parabolic wave equation (PWE) are available nowadays, but a relevant description of the refractive index profile is needed to feed these models. The idea, first introduced by Rogers and Gerstoft and known as "refractivity from clutter" (RFC), is to exploit the sea clutter in order to retrieve the refractive index profile. The aim of this paper is to propose a new inversion method to obtain the vertical variations of the modified refractivity from the knowledge of the range-dependent propagation losses. These latter can be deduced from the sea clutter collected by the radar. Whereas Rogers and Gerstoft used a genetic algorithm (GA) to find the modified refractivity profile parameters, least squares support vector machines (LS-SVM) are used here. This method produces good results with the great advantage of quickness.
Starting Page	1
Ending Page	6
File Size	1009384
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9789290929376
DOI	10.1109/EUCAP.2006.4584941
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2006-11-06
Publisher Place	France
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	ESA
Subject Keyword	Support vector machines Oceans Ducts Refractive index Radar Electromagnetic refraction Predictive models Electromagnetic propagation Clutter Least squares methods
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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