Enhancement of reflected waves in single-hole polarimetric borehole radar measurement

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1430-1437

  Miwa, Takashi ^b   Sato, Motoyuki ^a,c   Niitsuma, Hiroaki ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA REFLECTORS; DIPOLE ANTENNAS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; POLARIMETERS; RADAR MEASUREMENT; RADAR SYSTEMS; SLOT ANTENNAS; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

GEOLOGIC MEASUREMENTS; RADAR POLARIMETRY; REFLECTION BOREHOLE RADAR MEASUREMENT;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFLECTION;

EID: 0034261616     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.898777     Document Type: Article

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