Modeling Windblown Forest Clutter For SAR simulations

In this paper we present a complete radar modeling pipeline for windblown forest clutter. Because the forest is a set of trees, as a first approach, we model an isolated tree. For validation purposes our pipeline is adapted to SAR simulations. For this model the emphasis was put on 3 characteristics : tree animation due to wind, usage of frequencies higher than the S-band and possibility to be representative of the environment. To evaluate the backscattered field an asymptotic EM method was used combining geometrical and physical optics.