Time statistics of propagation over the ocean surface: a numerical study

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 38, Issue 4 I, 2000, Pages 1626-1634

  Ungan, Baran U ^b   Johnson, Joel T ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN CHANNEL; HYDRODYNAMIC DISPERSION; KIRCHOFF APPROXIMATION; OCEAN SURFACE; PIERSON-MOSKOWITZ SPECTRUM; TIME VARYING PROPERTIES;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; MULTIPATH PROPAGATION; ONE DIMENSIONAL; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS; SURFACES;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0034228129     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.851962     Document Type: Article

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