Remote sensing of penetrable objects buried beneath two-dimensional random rough surfaces by use of the Mueller matrix elements

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 183-194

  El Shenawee, Magda ^a  

^a 3202 Bell Engineering Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

MUELLER MATRIX ELEMENTS;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0043074851     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.20.000183     Document Type: Article

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