Application of Strong Fluctuation Random Medium Theory to Scattering from Vegetation-Like Half Space

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn GE-19, Issue 1, 1981, Pages 62-69

  Kong, Jin Au ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES - PROPAGATION;

VEGETATION SCATTER;

SOILS;

EID: 0019516267     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.1981.350329     Document Type: Article

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