Statistics of Low Grazing Angle Radar Sea Scatter for Moderate and Fully Developed Ocean Waves

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 1991, Pages 1681-1690

  Trizna, Dennis B ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADAR INTERFERENCE--CLUTTER; WATER WAVES--EFFECTS;

LOW GRAZING ANGLE RADAR SEA SCATTER; MODERATE/FULLY-DEVELOPED OCEAN WAVES; SCATTERING MECHANISMS MODELS; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTIONS;

RADAR;

EID: 0026400632     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: 15582221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.121588     Document Type: Article

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