A coherent scattering model to determine forest backscattering in the VHP-band

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 38, Issue 1 I, 2000, Pages 238-248

  Israelsson, Hans ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Backscattering; CARABAS; Forestry; Modeling; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR); VHF

Indexed keywords

CYLINDERS (SHAPES); DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FORESTRY; LIGHT SCATTERING; RAY TRACING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN (FDTD) METHOD;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0033908060     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.823916     Document Type: Article

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