Impedance calculations for horizontal wire antennas above a lossy earth

Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1567-1591

  Chaitanya Babu, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ESTIMATION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; INTEGRATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

HORIZONTAL WIRE ANTENNAS;

ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE;

EID: 0031383812     PISSN: 09205071     EISSN: 15693937     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156939397X00585     Document Type: Article

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