High resolution Ka-band images of a small tree: measurements and models

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 38, Issue 2 II, 2000, Pages 899-910

  Kim, Hyunjun ^a   Johnson, Joel T ^a   Baertlein, Brian A ^a  

^a The Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; FREQUENCIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADAR IMAGING; RADAR MEASUREMENT; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ATTENUATION EFFECTS; HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGING; INVERSE SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

VEGETATION;

EID: 0033905092     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.841973     Document Type: Article

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