Application of the multilevel single-linkage method to one-dimensional electromagnetic inverse scattering problem

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 47, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1658-1668

  Nakhkash, Mansor ^a   Huang, Yi ^a   Fang, Michael T C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC LINES; ERROR ANALYSIS; PERMITTIVITY; PROBLEM SOLVING;

MULTILEVEL SINGLE-LINKAGE METHODS; ONE-DIMENSIONAL ELECTROMAGNETIC INVERSE SCATTERING PROBLEMS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 0033225054     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.814945     Document Type: Article

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