Radar Scattering from a Self-Affine Fractal Surface: Near-Nadir Regime

Icarus

Volumn 141, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 156-171

  Shepard, Michael K ^a   Campbell, Bruce A ^b  

^a BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Radar; Surfaces planets; Venus surface

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000523912     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.1999.6141     Document Type: Article

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