Statistics of the Scattering Cross-Section of a Small Number of Random Scatterers

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 1995, Pages 773-783

  Daba, Jihad S ^a   Bell, Mark R ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RADAR MEASUREMENT; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CLOSED FORM EXPRESSIONS; CONSTANT AMPLITUDE SCATTERERS; RADAR TARGETS; RANDOM SCATTERERS; SCATTERED SIGNAL INTENSITY; SCATTERING CROSS SECTION; WEIGHTING FUNCTIONS;

RADAR CROSS SECTION;

EID: 0029359463     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: 15582221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.402196     Document Type: Article

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