Millimeter-wave measurements of foliage attenuation and ground reflectivity of tree stands at Nadir incidence

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1211-1222

  Nashashibi, Adib Y ^a   Sarabandi, Kama ^a   Oveisgharan, Shadi ^a   Dobson, M Craig ^a   Walker, Wayne S ^a   Burke, E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attentuation measurement; Millimeter wave propagation; Millimeter wave radar; Radar detection

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFLECTION; FORESTRY; MILLIMETER WAVES; RADAR TARGET RECOGNITION;

FOLIAGE ATTENUATION; GROUND REFLECTIVITY; MILLIMETER WAVE MEASUREMENT; TREE STAND;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 2942619060     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2004.827250     Document Type: Article

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