A new unified full wave approach to evaluate the scatter cross sections of composite random rough surfaces

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 973-980

  Bahar, Ezekiel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SURFACES;

COMPOSITE RANDOM ROUGH SURFACES; FULL WAVE SOLUTIONS; SPECTRAL DENSITY FUNCTION;

RADAR CROSS SECTION;

EID: 0030190660     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.508414     Document Type: Article

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