Radar image study of simulated breaking waves

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 2143-2150

  Kim, Hyunjun ^a   Johnson, Joel T ^b  

^a INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^b Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Breaking waves; Generalized forward backward method; Multipath scattering; Radar imaging

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHODS; ONE DIMENSIONAL; RAY TRACING; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY; WATER WAVES;

BACK PROJECTION TOMOGRAPHY; GENERALIZED FORWARD BACKWARD METHOD; MULTIPATH SCATTERING; SIMULATED BREAKING WAVES;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 0036821373     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2002.802475     Document Type: Article

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