Microwave permittivity measurements of two conifers

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1384-1395

  Franchois, Ann ^a   Pineiro, Y ^a,b   Lang, R H ^c  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^c GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anisotropic media; Coaxial waveguides; Dielectric measurements; Forestry; Microwave reflectometry; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; APPROXIMATION THEORY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; FORESTRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERMITTIVITY MEASUREMENT; REFLECTOMETERS; VEGETATION; WAVEGUIDES; WOOD;

COAXIAL WAVEGUIDES;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0032167168     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.718840     Document Type: Article

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