Application of iterative moment-method solutions to ocean surface radar scattering

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 121-132

  Donohue, D J ^a   Ku, H C ^a   Thompson, Donald R ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Sea surface electromagnetic scattering

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MICROWAVES; RADAR IMAGING; SEAWATER; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WATER WAVES;

OCEAN-RADAR SCATTERING;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 0031672410     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.655459     Document Type: Article

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