Effect of shadowing on electromagnetic scattering from rough ocean wavelike surfaces at small Grazing Angles

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 293-301

  West, James C ^a  

^a Oklahoma State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BACKSCATTERING; CALCULATIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; POLARIZATION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SURFACES;

BRAGG RESONANCE; GRAZING ANGLES; SHADOWING;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 0031098235     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.563269     Document Type: Article

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