Scattering from multiple objects buried beneath two-dimensional random rough surface using the steepest descent fast multipole method

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 802-809

  El Shenawee, Magda ^a  

^a 3202 Bell Engineering Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational electromagnetics; Multiple objects; Rough surface scattering; Steepest descent fast multipole method (SDFMM); Subsurface sensing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; OPTICAL SENSORS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

MULTIPLE OBJECTS;

ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS;

EID: 0038454492     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2003.811096     Document Type: Article

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