A Note on the Use of the Neumann Expansion in Calculating the Scatter from Rough Surfaces

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 1992, Pages 560-563

  Wingham, D J ^a   Devayya, R H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; SURFACES--ROUGHNESS MEASUREMENT;

NEUMANN EXPANSION; ROUGH SURFACES;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES;

EID: 0026868067     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: 15582221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.142632     Document Type: Article

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