A Phase matrix for a dense discrete random medium: Evaluation of volume scattering coefficient

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1137-1143

  Chuah, Hean Teik ^a,b   Tjuatja, Saibun ^a,b   Fung, Adrian K ^a,c   Bredow, Jonathan W ^b,c  

^a University of Texas   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^c Wave Scattering Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; CALCULATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT; RANDOM PROCESSES;

FAR FIELD APPROXIMATION; RANDOM MEDIUM; RANDOMNESS PROPERTIES; SCATTERING PHASE MATRIX; STOKES MATRIX; VOLUME SCATTERING COEFFICIENT;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 0030244546     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.536529     Document Type: Article

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