SCATTERING FROM FRACTAL SURFACES: ITS PHYSICAL READING IN TERMS OF ALPHA-STABLE DISTRIBUTIONS

Electromagnetic models for surface scattering represent a handy analytical tool useful in many remote sensing applications which exploit the prediction of the scattered field. Of course, the better is the surface model employed to compute the electromagnetic scattering, the more accurate are the forecasts on the scattered field, provided that closed form solutions for the statistics of the field are attainable.