Comparison of Modeled Backscatter from Slightly Rough Curved Surfaces with Numerical Predictions

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 1993, Pages 880-884

  West, James C ^a  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; GEOMETRY; RADAR; RADAR IMAGING; SCATTERING;

BACKSCATTER; FACET SIZE; MOMENT METHOD; ROUGH CURVED SURFACES;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 0027632065     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.239911     Document Type: Article

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