Dependence of attenuation in a vegetation canopy on frequency and plant water content

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1090-1096

  Le Vine, David M ^a,b   Karam, M A ^a,b  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b AEROJET ROCKETDYNE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLANTS (BOTANY); RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; RESONANCE; WATER;

OPTICAL DEPTH; VEGETATION CANOPY; WATER CONTENT; WAVELENGTHS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION;

EID: 0030242477     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.536525     Document Type: Article

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