A numerical study of low-grazing-angle backscatter from ocean-like impedance surfaces with the canonical grid method

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 114-120

  Johnson, Joel T ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Sea surface electromagnetic scattering

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; RADAR CROSS SECTION; SEAWATER; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

GRAZING ANGLES;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING;

EID: 0031646404     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.655458     Document Type: Article

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