Numerical calculations of radar scattering from sharply peaked ocean waves

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 636-646

  Lyzenga, David R ^a   Ericson, Eric A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; GRAVITATION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SURFACE WAVES; WATER WAVES;

IRROTATIONAL GRAVITY WAVES;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0032027471     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.662744     Document Type: Article

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