Accurate and efficient FDTD modeling of ground-penetrating radar antenna radiation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 20, 1998, Pages 3883-3886

  Holliger, Klaus ^a   Bergmann, Tim ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANTENNA RADIATION; APPROXIMATION THEORY; DIPOLE ANTENNAS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD THEORY; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; RADAR; WIRE;

GROUND-PENETRATING RADAR ANTENNA; CONDUCTING WIRE; DIELECTRIC MEDIA; FINITE -DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAINS (FDTD); GROUND PENETRATING RADAR ANTENNAS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SURVEY; INTEGRAL REPRESENTATION; NEAR FIELD RADIATION; NUMERICAL SOLUTION;

RADAR ANTENNAS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; INSTRUMENTATION;

EID: 0032532871     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998GL900049     Document Type: Article

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