Scalable multilevel fast multipole method for multiple targets in the vicinity of a half space

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 41, Issue 4 PART I, 2003, Pages 791-802

  Li, Ling ^a   Liu, Zhijun ^a   Dong, Xiaolong ^a   Thompson, James A ^a   Carin, Lawrence ^a  

^a Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

Fast algorithms; Numerical methods; Scattering

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATIC TARGET RECOGNITION; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NUMERICAL METHODS;

INTERTARGET SCATTERING; ITERATIVE MULTITARGET ANALYSIS; MULTILEVEL FAST MULTIPOLE ALGORITHM;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0037560660     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2003.811074     Document Type: Article

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