The Mueller and coherency matrices solution for polarimetric scattering simulation of tree canopy in SAR imaging at C band

Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Volumn 63, Issue 2-6, 1999, Pages 599-611

  Jin, Ya Qiu ^a   Zhang, Nan Xiong ^a   Chang, Mai ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANOPY; FOREST; SCATTERING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 0032748674     PISSN: 00224073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-4073(99)00040-0     Document Type: Article

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