Synthesis of Fractal Surfaces for Remote-Sensing Applications

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 53, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 3803-3814

  Riccio, Daniele ^a   Ruello, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic modeling; fractals; rough surfaces; signal synthesis

Indexed keywords

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; COMPUTATIONAL ELECTROMAGNETICS; FRACTALS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EFFICIENT SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC MODELING; FRACTIONAL BROWNIAN MOTION; PHYSICAL APPROACHES; REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS; ROUGH SURFACES; SIGNAL SYNTHESIS; WEIERSTRASS-MANDELBROT FUNCTIONS;

REMOTE SENSING;

BROWNIAN MOTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; ROUGHNESS; SAMPLING; SIGNAL;

EID: 85027944570     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2014.2384595     Document Type: Article

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