Reflection loss from a "Pierson-Moskowitz" sea surface using the nonlocal small slope approximation

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 37, Issue 1 II, 1999, Pages 632-634

  Broschat, Shira L ^a  

^a Washington State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic scattering; Electromagnetic reflection; Electromagnetic scattering by rough surfaces; Radar scattering; Remote sensing; Sea surface electromagnetic scattering

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE SCATTERING; APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFLECTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

KIRCHHOFF APPROXIMATION; NONLOCAL SMALL SLOPE APPROXIMATION; PIERSON-MOSKOWITZ SPECTRUM;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0032751895     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.739134     Document Type: Article

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