Generation of 3-D synthetic data for the modeling of the CONSERT experiment (the radiotomography of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko)

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 709-716

  Benna, Medhi ^a   Barriot, Jean Pierre ^a   Kofman, Wlodek ^b   Barbin, Yves ^c  

^a OBSERVATOIRE MIDI PYRÉNÉES   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE D ASTROPHYSIQUE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULON   (France)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic propagation in nonhomogeneous media; Electromagnetic tomography; Ray tracing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFLECTION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; RADAR ANTENNAS; RAY TRACING; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ELECTROMAGNETIC TOMOGRAPHY; MULTIPLE INTERNAL REFLECTION; PHASE DELAY; POLARIZATION DISTORTION; POWER LOSSES; RADIOTOMOGRAPHY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL SIMULATION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 2442449250     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2004.825564     Document Type: Article

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