Scattering from dielectric random fractal surfaces via method of moments

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 38, Issue 4 I, 2000, Pages 1644-1655

  Franceschetti, Giorgio ^a,b,c   Iodice, Antonio ^a,b   Riccio, Daniele ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC RANDOM FRACTAL SURFACES; FRACTAL GEOMETRY; PERTURBATION SCATTERING THEORY;

ALGORITHMS; DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES OF SOLIDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; FRACTALS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0034226672     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.851964     Document Type: Article

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