Quantitative roughness characterization of geological surfaces and implications for radar signature analysis

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 37, Issue 5 II, 1999, Pages 2397-2412

  Dierking, Wolfgang ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CHARACTERIZATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; GEOLOGY; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADAR IMAGING; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

FRACTAL MODEL; GEOLOGICAL SURFACES; RADAR SIGNATURE ANALYSIS;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0033349968     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.789638     Document Type: Article

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