Application of physics-based two-grid method and sparse matrix canonical grid method for numerical simulations of emissivities of soils with rough surfaces at microwave frequencies

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 38, Issue 4 I, 2000, Pages 1635-1643

  Li, Qin ^b   Tsang, Leung ^a,b   Shi, Jiancheng ^c   Chan, Chi Hou ^d  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b University of Washington   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN SPECTRUM; MICROWAVE FREQUENCIES; PHYSICS BASED TWO GRID METHOD; SPARSE MATRIX CANONICAL GRID METHOD;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; MOISTURE; PERMITTIVITY; SOIL TESTING; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SURFACES;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0034225140     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.851963     Document Type: Article

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