Polarimetric scattering from two-layered two-dimensional random rough surfaces with and without buried objects

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 67-76

  El Shenawee, Magda ^a  

^a University of Arkansas   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational electromagnetics; Multilayered rough ground; Rough surface scattering

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; POLARIMETERS; RANDOM PROCESSES; REMOTE SENSING;

COMPUTATIONAL ELECTROMAGNETICS; MULTILAYERED ROUGH GROUND; POLARIMETRIC SCATTERING; ROUGH SURFACE SCATTERING;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 1242308817     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2003.815675     Document Type: Article

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