Scattering by Conducting Bodies in Random Media

IEEJ Transactions on Fundamentals and Materials

Volumn 124, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1094-1100

  Tateiba, Mitsuo ^a   Meng, Zhi Qi ^b   El Ocla, Hosam ^c  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

backscattering enhancement; radar cross section; random medium; scattering; spatial partial coherence

Indexed keywords

EID: 34147100270     PISSN: 03854205     EISSN: 13475533     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1541/ieejfms.124.1094     Document Type: Article

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