High Frequency Scattering from Trihedral Corner Reflectors and other Benchmark Targets: SBR Versus Experiment

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 1991, Pages 1345-1351

  Baldauf, John ^a   Lee, Shung Wu ^a   Lin, Luke ^a   Jeng, Shyh Kang ^b   Scarborough, Steven M ^c   Yu, C L ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Naval Pacific Missile Test Center ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; CYLINDERS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES--SCATTERING; OPTICS; PLATES;

BENCHMARK TARGETS; HIGH FREQUENCY SCATTERING; SHOOTING AND BOUNCING (SBR) METHOD; TRIHEDRAL CORNER REFLECTORS;

RADAR;

EID: 0026223231     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: 15582221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.99043     Document Type: Article

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