Electromagnetic matched-field processing: basic concepts and tropospheric simulations

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1536-1545

  Gingras, Donald F ^a  

^a Naval Command   (United States)

Author keywords

Signal processing antennas

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC MATCHED FIELD PROCESSING; SIGNAL PROCESSING ANTENNAS; TROPOSPHERIC SIMULATION;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 0031257434     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.633863     Document Type: Article

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