Electromagnetic scattering from slightly rough surfaces with inhomogeneous dielectric profiles

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1419-1430

  Sarabandi, Kamal ^a   Chiu, Tsenchieh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic scattering; Inhomogeneous media; Rough surfaces

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; GREEN'S FUNCTION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; PERMITTIVITY MEASUREMENT; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; REMOTE SENSING; SENSORS; SOILS; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

MICROWAVE SENSORS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 0031233835     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.623132     Document Type: Article

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