Further study of rainfall effect on VHF forested radio-wave propagation with four-layered model

Progress in Electromagnetics Research

Volumn 99, Issue , 2009, Pages 149-161

  Meng, Y S ^a,b   Lee, Y H ^a   Ng, B C ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; PERMITTIVITY; RADIO WAVES; RAIN; TIME OF ARRIVAL;

DIELECTRIC PERMITTIVITIES; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; FORESTED ENVIRONMENT; PROPAGATING WAVES; RAINFALL EFFECT; REFLECTED WAVES; THEORETICAL STUDY; TROPICAL FOREST;

WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 72649101978     PISSN: 10704698     EISSN: 15598985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2528/PIER09102201     Document Type: Article

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