SEKE: A Computer Model for Low Altitude Radar Propagation Over Irregular Terrain

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 1986, Pages 1013-1023

  Ayasli, Serpil ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES - DIFFRACTION; MICROWAVES;

PROPAGATION MODEL; SPHERICAL EARTH DIFFRACTION;

RADAR;

EID: 0022768029     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: 15582221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.1986.1143933     Document Type: Article

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