A slope UTD solution for a cascade of multishaped canonical objects

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 54, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2969-2976

  Koutitas, George ^a   Tzaras, Costas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Radio propagation modeling; Slope diffraction; Terrain modeling

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; ALGORITHMS; ANECHOIC CHAMBERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADIO TRANSMISSION;

SLOPE DIFFRACTION; TERRAIN MODELING; UNIFORM THEORY OF DIFFRACTION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION;

EID: 33750126222     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2006.880771     Document Type: Article

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