An Ultrawideband, Polarimetric Radar for the Study of Sea Scatter

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 1994, Pages 1461-1466

  Sletten, Mark A ^a   Trizna, Dennis B ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); ANTENNAS; BACKSCATTERING; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; POLARIMETERS; RECEIVING ANTENNAS; REFLECTOMETERS; SAMPLING; SWITCHING; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

FAST RISETIME VOLTAGE; POLARIMETRIC SCATTERING MATRIX; TARGET TRANSLATION; TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETER; ULTRAWIDEBAND RADAR SYSTEMS;

RADAR SYSTEMS;

EID: 0028539798     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: 15582221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.362793     Document Type: Article

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