Kirchhoff scattering from fractal and classical rough surfaces: Physical interpretation

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 2156-2163

  Iodice, Antonio ^a   Natale, Antonio ^a,b   Riccio, Daniele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC SENSING OF THE ENVIRONMENT   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fractals; Kirchhoff approximation; rough surface scattering

Indexed keywords

FRACTALS; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SCATTERING; SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; FRACTIONAL BROWNIAN MOTION; KIRCHHOFF APPROACH; KIRCHHOFF APPROXIMATIONS; PHYSICAL INTERPRETATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION (PDF); ROUGH SURFACE SCATTERING; SCATTERING INTEGRAL;

SURFACE SCATTERING;

EID: 84876042000     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2012.2236531     Document Type: Article

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