Propagation of radar pulses from a horizontal dipole in variable dielectric ground: A numerical approach

Subsurface Sensing Technologies and Applications

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 5-24

  Liu, Lanbo ^a   Arcone, Steve A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b Engineering Research and Development Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Anomaly models; Broadside; End fire; Half space; Pseudospectral time domain method

Indexed keywords

DIPOLE ANTENNAS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFRACTION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERMITTIVITY; RADAR; RADAR REFLECTION; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ANOMALY MODELS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN FORWARD MODELING; HORIZONTAL DIPOLE; PSEUDOSPECTRAL TIME DOMAIN METHOD; RADAR PULSES; VARIABLE DIELECTRIC GROUND;

ELECTRIC GROUNDING;

EID: 19744375454     PISSN: 15660184     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11220-005-4223-2     Document Type: Article

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