The effects of topography on mechanisms of radar backscatter from coniferous forest and upland pasture

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 36, Issue 5 PART 2, 1998, Pages 1830-1834

  Luckman, Adrian J ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decomposition; Forest; Synthetic aperture radar (sar); Topography

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; FORESTRY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY;

DECOMPOSITION SCATTERING MODEL;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 0032166364     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.718651     Document Type: Article

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