Numerical study of shadowing in electromagnetic scattering from rough dielectric surfaces

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 36, Issue 5 PART 1, 1998, Pages 1477-1484

  Michael Sturm, J ^a  

^a Seiscor Technologies   (United States)

Author keywords

Bragg scattering; Electromagnetic scattering by rough surfaces; Moment methods

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; FUNCTIONS; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; MICROWAVES; NUMERICAL METHODS; PERMITTIVITY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

BRAGG SCATTERING; GEOMETRICAL THEORY OF DIFFRACTION (GTD);

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0032162584     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.718851     Document Type: Article

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