Scattering from natural rough surfaces modeled by fractional Brownian motion two-dimensional processes

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1405-1415

  Franceschetti, Giorgio ^a   Lodice, Antonio ^a   Migliaccio, Maurizio ^a   Riccio, Daniele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FRACTALS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

FRACTIONAL BROWNIAN MOTION; KIRCHHOFF APPROXIMATION; STRATTON-CHU SCATTERING INTEGRAL; WEIERSTRASS-MANDELBROT BAND LIMITED FUNCTION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 0033337414     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.793320     Document Type: Article

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