Electromagnetic Scattering Model for a Tree Trunk Above a Tilted Ground Plane

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 1995, Pages 1063-1070

  Lin, Yi Cheng ^a   Sarabandi, Kamal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERMITTIVITY; RADAR CROSS SECTION; REMOTE SENSING;

BISTATIC SCATTERING RESPONSE; CORRUGATION PARAMETERS; DIELECTRIC GROUND PLANE; IMAGE EXCITATION; MICROWAVE REGION; PHYSICAL OPTICS APPROXIMATION; TREE TRUNK;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 0029340491     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.406692     Document Type: Article

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