Lacunarity of rough surfaces from the wavelet analysis of scattering data

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 57, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 2130-2136

  Poirier, Jean René ^a   Aubert, Hervé ^b,c   Jaggard, Dwight L ^d  

^a Laboratoire Plasma et Conversion d'Energie   (France)

^b LAAS CNRS   (France)

^c INSA   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Inverse problem; Lacunarity; Multiscale; Rough surfaces; Wavelet analysis

Indexed keywords

DESCRIPTORS; FRACTAL MODEL; LACUNARITY; MULTI-SCALE FEATURES; MULTISCALE; MULTISCALE SURFACE; NEAR-FIELD; REMOTE ANALYSIS; ROUGH SURFACES; SCALE SIZES; SCALING PROPERTIES; SCATTERED WAVES; SCATTERING DATA; WAVELET ANALYZE;

ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; FRACTAL DIMENSION; HEURISTIC METHODS; IMPULSE RESPONSE; INITIATORS (CHEMICAL); INVERSE PROBLEMS; NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS; PARTIAL DISCHARGES; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WAVELET ANALYSIS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

SURFACE ANALYSIS;

EID: 67949088262     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2009.2016702     Document Type: Article

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