Calculation of the RCS from the Double Reflection between Planar Facets and Curved Surfaces

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 2509-2512

  De Adana, F Saez ^a   Nieves, S ^a   Garcia E ^a   Gonzalez I ^b   Gutierrez O ^a   Catedra M F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Double effects; Geometrical optics (GO); NURBS; Physical optics; Radar cross section (RCS); Stationary phase method

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFLECTION; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

STATIONARY PHASE METHOD;

RADAR CROSS SECTION;

EID: 0141749457     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2003.816645     Document Type: Article

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