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A number of problems, conjectures, and results in radar scattering theory and related fields are reported. Some experiments useful for suggesting theoretical problems or confirming theoretical results are also sketched.
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Ament, W.S. (1980). Topics in radar scattering theory. In: DeSanto, J.A., Sáenz, A.W., Zachary, W.W. (eds) Mathematical Methods and Applications of Scattering Theory. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 130. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-10023-7_94
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