Electromagnetic wave scattering from layered structures with an arbitrary number of rough interfaces

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1056-1072

  Imperatore, Pasquale ^a   Iodice, Antonio ^a   Riccio, Daniele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic scattering; Generalized reflection coefficients; Layered media; Remote sensing; Rough surfaces

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETISM; REFLECTION; REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

ARBITRARY NUMBERS; CLASSICAL SCHEMES; CLOSED FORMS; CORRUGATED INTERFACES; CURRENT SHEETS; ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING; FIRST ORDERS; FIRST-ORDER APPROXIMATIONS; GENERALIZED REFLECTION COEFFICIENTS; GREEN FUNCTIONS; LAYERED MEDIA; LAYERED STRUCTURES; MATRIX FORMALISMS; PERTURBATIVE EXPANSIONS; ROUGH INTERFACES; ROUGH SURFACES; ROUGHNESS HEIGHTS; SCATTERED FIELDS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE; LAYER; SLOPE;

EID: 63149135682     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.2007804     Document Type: Article

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