Studies of the angular correlation function of scattering by random rough surfaces with and without a Buried Object

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 444-453

  Zhang, Guifu ^a   Tsang, Leung ^a   Kuga, Yasuo ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; RADAR CROSS SECTION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

ANGULAR AVERAGING; ANGULAR CORRELATION FUNCTION; FREQUENCY AVERAGING; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; REALIZATION AVERAGING;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 0031098991     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.563283     Document Type: Article

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