Computation of longwave electromagnetic response of nonhomogeneous media

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1479-1489

  Martín Herrero, Julio ^a   Peón Fernández, Jaime F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Effective medium theory; Mixing rules; Monte Carlo methods; Nonhomogeneous media

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; GRANULAR MATERIALS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; MICROSTRUCTURE; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PERMITTIVITY; RADAR; RELAXATION PROCESSES;

EFFECTIVE MEDIUM THEORY; LONGWAVE APPROXIMATION (LWA); MIXING RULES; NONHOMOGENEOUS MEDIA;

GEOPHYSICS;

EID: 23844431645     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2005.846867     Document Type: Article

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