PROCEEDINGS
 Direct and Inverse Electromagnetic Scattering
 Editors : A. H. Serbest and S. R. Cloude
 Pitman Research Notes in Mathematics Series
 Addison Wesley Longman Ltd, UK
 ISBN 0 – 582 – 29964 – 0

Contents
Preface

CHAPTER 1

GENERALIZED AND APPROXIMATE BOUNDARY CONDITIONS

F S Teixeira and P A Santos
Sommerfeld-type diffraction problems with approximate boundary conditions of
arbitrary order 3

J L Volakis, T B A Senior, S R Legault, T Özdemir and M Casciato
Artificial absorbers for truncating finite element meshes 15

A Moura Santos, F O Speck and F S Teixeira
Compatibility conditions in some diffraction problems 25

CHAPTER II
WIENER-HOPF TECHNIQUE AND APPLICATIONS

I D Abrahams
On explicit approximate non-commutative factorization of matrix Wiener-Hopf
kernels 41

E Lüneburg
Plane waveguides and the Riemann-Hilbert method: an alternative to the
Wiener-Hopf technique 56

E Meister
Factorization problems in diffraction theory for canonical domains 69

A D Rawlins
Two trifurcated waveguide problems solved exactly by matrix Wiener-Hopf
factorization 82

G R Wickham and P A Lewis
Mode conversion, corner singularities and matrix Wiener-Hopf factorization 89

CHAPTER III
APPLICATIONS OF ANALYTICAL METHODS IN ELECTROMAGNETICS

A Büyükaksoy, F Birbir, E Erdogan and G Uzgören

Plane wave diffraction by a rectangular groove in a reactive surface 101

M Idemen and E Erdogan

High-frequency surface currents induced on a spherical reflector by the

edge-diffraction of obliquely incident waves 121

S Koshikawa and K Kobayashi

RCS analysis of a parallel-plate waveguide cavity with three-layer material loading 142

CHAPTER IV
APPLICATIONS OF COMPUTATIONAL METHODS IN
ELECTROMAGNETICS

A Matsushima
Scattering and guided mode excitation by a finite array of conducting strips
embedded in a dielectric slab waveguide 161

P D Smith
Time domain integral equation techniques in electromagnetic scattering 171

V Stein
Methods and experiences in correcting the physical optics solution by an edge
diffracted field 189

CHAPTER V
INVERSE SCATTERING AND MICROWAVE IMAGING

O M Bucci and T Isernia
Degrees of freedom of scattered fields and attainable resolution in
electromagnetics inverse problems 207

S R Cloude
Vector EM scattering theory for polarimetric SAR image interpretation 217

M A Fiddy, J B Morris and D A Pommet
Imaging of strongly scattering objects from limited scattered field data using a
nonlinear filtering technique 230

M Idemen and I Akduman

One-dimensional profile inversion of a half-space over a multi-part impedance

ground 240

E Luneburg

Radar polarimetry: a revision of basic concepts 257