Complex Image Model for Ground-Penetrating Radar Antennas

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1483-1488

  Leat, Christopher J ^a,b   Shuley, Nicholas V ^a,b   Stickley, Glen F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b Cooperative Research Center for Sensor Signal and Information Processing ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Moment methods; Radar antennas

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX IMAGE MODEL; PULSE-BASIS FUNCTIONS;

DIPOLE ANTENNAS; ELECTRIC CURRENT DISTRIBUTION; GREEN'S FUNCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

RADAR ANTENNAS;

EID: 0032184551     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.725280     Document Type: Article

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