A fully three-dimensional simulation of a ground-penetrating radar: fdtd theory compared with Experiment

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 36-44

  Bourgeois, Jacqueline M ^a   Smith, Glenn S ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA FEEDERS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADAR ANTENNAS; REMOTE SENSING; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

GROUND PENETRATING RADAR;

RADAR;

EID: 0029735358     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.481890     Document Type: Article

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