Sea-spike backscatter from a steepening wave

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 108-113

  Holliday, Dennis ^a   Deraad Jr , Lester L ^a   St Cyr, Gaétan J ^a  

^a Logicon Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Sea surface electromagnetic scattering

Indexed keywords

MICROWAVES; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; RADAR CROSS SECTION; SEAWATER; WATER WAVES;

INCIDENCE ANGLES;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING;

EID: 0031698472     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.655457     Document Type: Article

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