Extraction of virtual scattering centers of vehicles by ray-tracing simulations

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 56, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 3543-3551

  Schuler, Karin ^a,b   Becker, Denis ^a   Wiesbeck, Werner ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b AIRBUS GROUP INNOVATIONS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ray tracing; RCS modeling; Scattering center

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); RADAR; RAY TRACING; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VEHICLES;

COMPLEX TARGETS; COMPUTATIONAL EFFORTS; DESIGN MODELS; MODEL COMPLEXES; RADAR SIMULATIONS; RCS-MODELING; REFLECTED SIGNALS; SCATTERING BEHAVIORS; SCATTERING CENTER; SCATTERING CENTERS; SCATTERING CHARACTERISTICS; VEHICLE MODELS;

SCATTERING;

EID: 57149142245     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2008.2005436     Document Type: Article

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