Preliminary study of 0.14 THz water surface clutter reflectivity at near vertical incidence angle

As the development of radar systems developed for the terahertz and higher millimeter region continues to grow, the interest in the water surface and land clutter at terahertz and higher millimeter frequencies continues to increase. An empirical model of sea clutter reflectivity is described firstly, which is valid at near vertical incidence and has small average absolute deviation compared to other empirical models. Simulated results of 0.14 THz sea clutter at near vertical incidence with thismodel are shown. An indoor test-bed is constructed in order to measure 0.14 THz water surface clutter reflectivity and an experiment is carried out. Initial experimental results are presented and compared to the simulation results, which partially verifies that the empirical sea clutter model still works at 0.14 THz.