An fdtd/mom hybrid technique for modeling complex antennas in the presence of heterogeneous grounds

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 2692-2698

  Huang, Zhubo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Antenna radiation patterns; Finite difference methods; Ground; Iterative methods; Radar

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; RADAR ANTENNAS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

GROUND-PENETRATING RADAR ANTENNAS;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0033225148     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.803416     Document Type: Article

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