Vertical structure of vegetated land surfaces from interferometric and polarimetric radar

Radio Science

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 141-177

  Treuhaft, Robert N ^a   Siqueira, Paul R ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; INTERFEROMETERS; MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POLARIMETERS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; VEGETATION; ELLIPSOMETRY; INTERFEROMETRY; RADAR; SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

EIGENPOLARIZATIONS; POLARIMETRIC INTERFEROMETRY; VEGETATED LAND SURFACES; VERTICAL STRUCTURE;

RADAR MEASUREMENT; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

ESTIMATION OF PARAMETERS; ESTIMATION TECHNIQUES; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; EXTINCTION COEFFICIENTS; INTERFEROMETRIC RADARS; PARAMETER CONSTRAINING; POLARIMETRIC INTERFEROMETRY; SIMPLE PHYSICAL MODELS;

EID: 0033903338     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999RS900108     Document Type: Article

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