Simulating coherent backscattering from crops during the growing cycle

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 162-177

  Marliani, Filippo ^b   Paloscia, Simonetta ^c   Pampaloni, Paolo ^a,c   Kong, J A ^a,d  

^a IEEE   (Italy)

^b EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coherent model; Interferometry; Scattering phase center; Vegetation growth

Indexed keywords

COHERENT BACKSCATTERING;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROPS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; INTERFEROMETRY; REMOTE SENSING;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING;

FARM CROPS; INTERFEROMETRY; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0036193911     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.981358     Document Type: Article

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