The use of fractals for modeling em waves scattering from rough sea surface

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 966-972

  Chen, Ji ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; FRACTALS; GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS; SURFACE WATERS;

KIRCHOFF APPROXIMATION; PIERSON-MOSKOWITZ SPECTRUM; SURFACE CORRELATION LENGTH; SURFACE FRACTAL DIMENSION; SURFACE SCATTERING;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 0030192846     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.508413     Document Type: Article

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