Explicit full identification of a transient dipole source in the atmosphere from measurement of the electromagnetic fields at several points at ground level

Radio Science

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 107-117

  He, Sailing ^a   Popov, Mikhail ^a   Romanov, Vladimir ^a,b  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b SOBOLEV INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; FUNCTIONS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; NUMERICAL METHODS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS;

ELECTRIC DIPOLE; OBJECTIVE FUNCTION; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHM; TRANSIENT DIPOLE SOURCE;

ATMOSPHERICS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

DIPOLE ORIENTATION; DIPOLE SOURCES; FULL INFORMATIONS; GROUND LEVEL; GROUND POINT; MEASUREMENT OF THE ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; MEASUREMENT POINTS; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS;

EID: 0033892798     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999RS002198     Document Type: Article

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