Electromagnetic Wave Scattering from Some Vegetation Samples

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 1988, Pages 799-808

  Karam, Mostafa A ^a   Fung, Adrian K ^a   Antar, Yahia M M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES -- TENSORS; REMOTE SENSING; SURFACES;

EM SCATTERING FROM VEGETATION; LOSSY DIELECTRIC CYLINDER; RAYLEIGH APPROXIMATION; RAYLEIGH-GANS (GRG) APPROXIMATION; THIN CYLINDRICAL SCATTERER;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES;

EID: 0024104892     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.7711     Document Type: Article

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