Electromagnetic scattering from an electrically dense vegetation medium

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 38, Issue 5 I, 2000, Pages 2093-2105

  Ewe, H T ^a   Chuah, Hean Teik ^a  

^a MULTIMEDIA UNIVERSITY   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; ITERATIVE METHODS; VEGETATION; VOLUME FRACTION;

FRESNEL PHASE CORRECTION;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0034271448     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.868868     Document Type: Article

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