Monte Carlo simulations of scattering and emission from lossy dielectric random rough surfaces using the wavelet transform method

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 37, Issue 5 pt 1, 1999, Pages 2295-2304

  Lin, Chien Min ^a   Chan, Chi Hou ^a   Tsang, Leung ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

BANDED MATRIX ITERATIVE APPROACH CANONICAL GRID METHOD; LOSSY DIELECTRIC RANDOM ROUGH SURFACES;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0033189922     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.789626     Document Type: Article

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