A site-specific model of radar terrain backscatter and shadowing

Johns Hopkins APL Technical Digest (Applied Physics Laboratory)

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 432-446

  Lin, Christopher C ^a   Reilly, J Patrick ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Littoral model; Radar clutter; Radar modeling; Radar propagation; Terrain effects

Indexed keywords

EID: 0343406608     PISSN: 02705214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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