Green's function refinement as an approach to radar backscatter: general theory and applications to LGA scattering from the ocean

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 57-66

  Shaw, William T ^a   Dougan, Andrew J ^a  

^a Magdalen Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Green's function; Sea surface electromagnetic scattering

Indexed keywords

GREEN'S FUNCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADAR CROSS SECTION; SEAWATER; STATISTICAL METHODS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

SEA SURFACE;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING;

EID: 0031646456     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.655451     Document Type: Article

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