Detection of targets buried in fractal trees by using the polarization angular correlation function

Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 891-902

  Wang, X D ^a   Zhang, Z Z ^a   Fu, J M ^b  

^a CHINA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF RADIOWAVE PROPAGATION   (China)

^b XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CORRELATION METHODS; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; FRACTALS; FUNCTIONS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; METHOD OF MOMENTS; RANDOM PROCESSES; VECTORS;

AZIMUTHAL ANGULAR AVERAGING; IMAGE THEORY; POLARIZATION ANGULAR CORRELATION FUNCTIONS (PACF); RECIPROCITY THEOREM; SPHERICAL VECTOR WAVE FUNCTIONS; STOCHASTIC LIDENMAYER SYSTEM;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES;

EID: 0033714427     PISSN: 09205071     EISSN: 15693937     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156939300X00013     Document Type: Article

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