Coherent effects in microwave backscattering models for forest canopies

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1032-1044

  Saatchi, Sasan S ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROWAVES; RADAR IMAGING;

DISTORTED BORN APPROXIMATION (DBA); FOREST CANOPIES; RADIATIVE TRANSFER (RT);

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0031186597     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.602545     Document Type: Article

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