Scattering from natural soils modeled by dielectric fractal profiles: The forward-backward approach

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 77-85

  Iodice, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic scattering by rough surfaces; Fractals; Method of moments (MoM); Radar cross section

Indexed keywords

FRACTALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; NUMERICAL METHODS; RADAR CROSS SECTION; RANDOM PROCESSES; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL SURVEYS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

DIELECTRIC FRACTAL PROFILES; GAUSSIAN STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; PIERSON-MOSCOWITZ SPECTRA;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 1242310601     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2003.816664     Document Type: Article

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