The Scope of Impedance Boundary Conditions in Radio Propagation

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 1990, Pages 721-723

  Wait, James R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING--ELECTROMAGNETIC;

IMPEDANCE BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; MAGNETOTELLURIC PROBING; RADIO PROPAGATION;

RADIO TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0025458403     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.1990.572990     Document Type: Article

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