Effects of fractal fluctuations in topographic relief, permittivity and conductivity on ground-penetrating radar antenna radiation

Geophysics

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1934-1944

  Lampe, Bernhard ^a   Holliger, Klaus ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPOLE ANTENNAS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FRACTALS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERMITTIVITY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; RADAR ANTENNAS; RADIATION EFFECTS; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; TOPOGRAPHY;

ELECTRIC MATERIAL PROPERTIES; TOPOGRAPHIC FLUCTUATIONS; ANTENNA THEORY; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR (GPR); GROUND PENETRATING RADAR ANTENNAS; HETEROGENEOUS DISTRIBUTIONS; ROUGH SURFACES; SCATTERING AND ABSORPTION;

GEOPHYSICS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA);

CONDUCTIVITY; GEOPHYSICAL ARRAY; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; PERMITTIVITY; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

EID: 0347355356     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1635047     Document Type: Article

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