A reappraisal of the validity of the IEM model for backscattering from rough surfaces

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 743-753

  Wu, Tzong Dar ^a   Chen, Kun Shan ^b  

^a National Science Council   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Backscattering; Integral equation method (IEM) model; Rough surface

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; FREQUENCIES; GREEN'S FUNCTION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; PERMITTIVITY; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

INTEGRAL EQUATION METHODS (IEM) MODEL; ROUGH SURFACES; SPECTRAL REPRESENTATIONS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING;

EID: 2442591092     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2003.815405     Document Type: Conference Paper

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