Rigorous Modeling of ultrawideband VHF scattering from tree trunks over flat and sloped terrain

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 2182-2193

  He, Jiangqi ^b   Geng, Norbert ^a,c   Nguyen, Lam ^d   Carin, Lawrence ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b Duke University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^d U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; REMOTE SENSING;

BODY OF REVOLUTION (BOR);

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 0035481315     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.957281     Document Type: Article

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