Analysis of Scattering from Rough Surfaces at Large Incidence Angles Using a Periodic-Surface Moment Method

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 1995, Pages 1206-1213

  Chen, Ruimin ^a   West, James C ^b  

^a Quantum Effect Design Inc ^*  (United States)

^b OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; ESTIMATION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SURFACES;

ARTIFICIAL ILLUMINATION; GAUSSIAN ROUGHNESS SPECTRA; INCIDENCE ANGLES; KIRCHHOFF APPROXIMATION; MOMENT INTERACTION MATRIX; MOMENT METHOD; PERIODIC REPRESENTATION; ROUGH SURFACES; SCATTERING SURFACES; SMALL-PERTURBATION METHOD;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING;

EID: 0029370542     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.469484     Document Type: Article

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