Application of First-Order Renormalization Method to Scattering from a Vegetation-Like Half-Space

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience Electronics

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 1977, Pages 189-195

  Fung, Adrian K ^a   Fung, H S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VEGETATION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES;

EID: 0017548070     PISSN: 00189413     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGE.1977.294491     Document Type: Article

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