A Fast Algorithm for Signature Prediction and Image Formation Using the Shooting and Bouncing Ray Technique

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 1995, Pages 727-731

  Bhalla, Rajan ^a   Ling, Hao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; INTEGRATION; INTERPOLATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

COMPLEX TARGETS; IMAGE DOMAIN RAY TUBE INTEGRATION; INVERSE SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR IMAGES; RANGE PROFILES; SHOOTING AND BOUNCING RAY TECHNIQUE; SIGNATURE PREDICTION;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0029342429     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: 15582221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.391147     Document Type: Article

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