Scattering from a metallic object embedded near the randomly rough surface of a lossy dielectric

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 367-376

  O'Neill, Kevin ^a   Lussky Jr , Robert F ^b   Paulsen, Keith D ^b  

^a Engineering Research and Development Center   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MONTE CARLO METHODS; RADAR IMAGING; REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

BEAMWIDTH; FINITE WIDTH BEAM; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; INCIDENCE ANGLE; LOSSY DIELECTRIC; RANDOMLY ROUGH SURFACE; SOIL CHARACTERISTIC; SURFACE SCATTERING COEFFICIENT DISTRIBUTION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 0030104919     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.485114     Document Type: Article

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