Curvature effects in the composite model for low-grazing-angle rough-surface scatter

Waves Random Media

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 41-52

  Voronovich, A G ^a   Zavorotny, V U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; RADAR CROSS SECTION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

CURVATURE EFFECT; KIRCHHOFF APPROXIMATION; LOW GRAZING ANGLE ROUGH SURFACE SCATTER;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING;

EID: 0031646196     PISSN: 09597174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13616679809409828     Document Type: Article

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