Emission of rough surfaces calculated by the integral equation method with comparison to three-dimensional moment method simulations

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 90-101

  Chen, K S ^a   Wu, Tzong Dar ^b   Tsang, Leung ^c,d   Li, Qin ^e   Shi, Jiancheng ^f   Fung, A K ^g  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b National Science Council   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^e University of Washington   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g The University of Texas at Arlington   (United States)

Author keywords

Microwave emissions; Moment method simulation; Rough surfaces; Scattering model

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GREEN'S FUNCTION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; MICROWAVES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TEMPERATURE;

GAUSSIAN ROUGH SURFACES; KIRCHHOFF FIELDS; THREE DIMENSIONAL MOMENT METHOD SIMULATION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION;

EID: 0037237764     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2002.807587     Document Type: Article

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