The Numerical Calculation of Rough Surface Scattering by the Conjugate Gradient Method

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 1992, Pages 645-648

  Devayya, R ^a   Wingham, D J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES - SCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES - NUMERICAL METHODS; SURFACES - REMOTE SENSING;

CONJUGATE GRADIENT METHOD; MAGNETIC FIELD INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; ROUGH SURFACE SCATTERING;

SURFACES;

EID: 0026866889     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.142950     Document Type: Article

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