Monte-Carlo Simulation of Electromagnetic Scattering from a Heterogeneous Two-Component Medium

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 1995, Pages 1048-1057

  Polatin, Paul F ^a   Sarabandi, Kamal ^a   Ulaby, Fawwaz T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEURISTIC METHODS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PERMITTIVITY; RANDOM PROCESSES; STATISTICAL METHODS; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

BACKSCATTERING COEFFICIENT; HETEROGENOUS TWO COMPONENT MEDIUM; RADIATIVE TRANSFER THEORY; RECIPROCITY;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 0029393211     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: 15582221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.467640     Document Type: Article

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