Model for Brewster angle damping and multipath effects on the microwave radar sea echo at low grazing angles

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1232-1244

  Trizna, Dennis B ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE INTERFERENCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; GRAVITY WAVES; MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT; RADAR MEASUREMENT; SEAWATER; WATER WAVES;

BREWSTER ANGLE; GRAZING ANGLE; ILLUMINATION GAIN FACTOR; MICROWAVE RADAR SEA ECHO;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0031235408     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.628790     Document Type: Article

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