Analysis of radiowave propagation in a four-layered anisotropie forest environment

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1967-1979

  Li, Le Wei ^a   Koh, Jin Hou ^a   Yeo, Tat Soon ^a   Leong, Mook Seng ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DIPOLE ANTENNAS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD THEORY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; FORESTRY; GREEN'S FUNCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VEGETATION;

ANISOTROPIC FOREST MODEL;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0032642299     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.774708     Document Type: Article

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