Numerical simulation of polarimetric radar pulse echoes from the lunar regolith layer with scatter inhomogeneity and rough interfaces

Radio Science

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Jin, Ya Qiu ^a   Xu, Feng ^a   Fa, Wenzhe ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONAL DEPENDENCE; INHOMOGENEITIES; LAYER THICKNESS; LUNAR REGOLITH; MODEL PARAMETERS; MOON EXPLORATION; MOON SURFACE; MUELLER MATRIX SOLUTION; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; OBLATE SPHEROID; POLARIMETRIC ECHO; POLARIMETRIC RADARS; POTENTIAL UTILITY; PULSE ECHOES; RADAR PULSE; ROUGH INTERFACES; SCATTERING MECHANISMS; STRATIFIED MEDIA; STRUCTURE PROPERTY; SURFACE SCATTERING; TEMPORAL CHARACTERISTICS; THEORETICAL MODELS; TIME DOMAIN; TIO; UNDERLYING ROCKS; VECTOR RADIATIVE TRANSFER; VOLUMETRIC SCATTERING;

IRON OXIDES; LUNAR MISSIONS; LUNAR SURFACE ANALYSIS; POLARIMETERS; POLAROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; RADAR; SIMULATORS;

SCATTERING;

EID: 38148998607     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006RS003523     Document Type: Article

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