A three-wave FDTD approach to surface scattering with applications to remote sensing of geophysical surfaces

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 504-514

  Bill Wong, P ^a   Leonard Tyler, G ^a   Baron, John E ^a   Gurrola, Eric M ^a   Simpson, Richard A ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFLECTION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; GEOPHYSICS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; REMOTE SENSING; SURFACES; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

HUYGEN'S PRINCIPLE; INCIDENT PLANE WAVE; MAGNETIC CURRENTS; RADIO ECHO; SOMMERFELD THEORY;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 0030128079     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.489302     Document Type: Article

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