Transient response of a layer of discrete random media over a dielectric half space

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 1992, Pages 1034-1045

  Vine, David M Le ^a   Lang, Roger H ^b   Lin, Yanqing ^b  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BACKSCATTERING;

DIELECTRIC HALF SPACE; DISCRETE RANDOM MEDIA; DISTORTED BORN APPROXIMATION; RANDOM MEDIA; SHORT PULSE SOLUTION; TRANSIENT RESPONSE;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 0026913396     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.175338     Document Type: Article

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