Multipath scattering in ultrawide-band radar sea spikes

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 45-56

  Sletten, Mark A ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Sea surface electromagnetic scattering

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROWAVES; RADAR IMAGING; SEAWATER; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WATER WAVES;

SEA SURFACE;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 0031698473     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.655450     Document Type: Article

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