Comparison of asymptotic backscattering models (SSA, WCA, and LCA) from one-dimensional Gaussian ocean-like surfaces

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1640-1652

  Bourlier, Christophe ^a   Déchamps, Nicolas ^a,b   Berginc, Gérard ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c THALES   (France)

Author keywords

Ocean remote sensing; Radar scattering; Scattering from rough surface

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADAR CROSS SECTION; REMOTE SENSING; STATISTICAL METHODS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

NORMALIZED RADAR CROSS SECTION; OCEAN REMOTE SENSING; RADAR SCATTERING;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING;

EID: 19144368318     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2005.846800     Document Type: Article

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