Ray tracing with PO/PTD for RCS modeling of large complex objects

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1797-1806

  Weinmann, Frank ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR HIGH FREQUENCY PHYSICS AND RADAR TECHNIQUES FHR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Numerical modeling; Physical optics (PO); Physical theory of diffraction (PTD); Radar cross section (RCS); Ray tracing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DIFFRACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; PHYSICAL OPTICS; RADAR CROSS SECTION; RANDOM PROCESSES;

NUMERICAL MODELING; PHYSICAL THEORY OF DIFFRACTION (PTD); SCATTERED FIELDS;

RAY TRACING;

EID: 33745210806     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2006.875910     Document Type: Article

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