Measurement and classification of low-grazing-angle radar sea spikes

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 27-40

  Liu, Yong ^a   Frasier, Stephen J ^a   Mclntosh, Robert E ^a  

^a University of Massachusetts   (United States)

Author keywords

Sea surface electromagnetic scattering

Indexed keywords

DOPPLER EFFECT; GRAVITY WAVES; RADAR IMAGING; SEAWATER; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; VIDEO RECORDING;

SEA SURFACE;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 0031647267     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.655448     Document Type: Article

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