Electromagnetic scattering from objects above a rough surface using the method of moments with half-space green's function

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3399-3405

  Guan, Bo ^a   Zhang, Jian Feng ^a   Zhou, Xiao Yang ^a   Cui, Tie Jun ^a  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Half space Green(tm)s function; Kirchhoff approximation (KA); Method of moments (MoM); Rough surface; Scattering

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL TIME AND MEMORY; ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING; HALF-SPACE; HALF-SPACE GREEN(TM)S FUNCTION; KIRCHHOFF APPROXIMATION (KA); KIRCHHOFF APPROXIMATIONS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PERFECTLY ELECTRIC CONDUCTING; ROUGH SURFACE; ROUGH SURFACES; SCATTERING PROBLEMS; SURFACE INTERFACES;

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; GREEN'S FUNCTION; RADAR CROSS SECTION; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

METHOD OF MOMENTS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ELECTROMAGNETIC METHOD; GREEN FUNCTION; HALF SPACE; KIRCHHOFF EQUATION; RADAR IMAGERY; SCATTERING; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 70350621353     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2022169     Document Type: Article

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