A Fast Physical Optics (FPO) algorithm for high frequency scattering

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 197-204

  Boag, Amir ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic scattering; Fast algorithms; Physical optics; Radar cross sections; Synthetic aperture radar

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; INTEGRATION; INTERPOLATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; PHYSICAL OPTICS; RADAR CROSS SECTION; RADAR IMAGING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

BISTATIC RADAR; DOMAIN DECOMPOSITION; FAST PHYSICAL OPTICS ALGORITHMS; HIGH FREQUENCY SCATTERING; RADAR IMAGING SIMULATION; RECURSIVE APPLICATIONS;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 1542375823     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2003.822426     Document Type: Article

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