Electromagnetic scattering from grassland part I: A fully phase-coherent scattering model

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 38, Issue 1 II, 2000, Pages 339-348

  Stiles, James M ^a   Sarabandi, Kamal ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Coherent scattering; Extinction in random media; Vegetation scattering models

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VEGETATION;

PHASE-COHERENT SCATTERING MODEL; VEGETATION SCATTERING MODEL;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0033881484     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.823929     Document Type: Article

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