Retrievals of Underlying Surface Roughness and Moisture from Polarimetric Pulse Echoes in the Specular Direction Through Stratified Vegetation Canopy

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 426-433

  Jin, Ya Qiu ^a   Chen, Fei ^a   Chang, Mei ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Polarimetric scattering; Pulse incidence; Retrieval of roughness and moisture; Temporal Mueller matrix; Vegetation canopy

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFLECTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; MOISTURE; POLARIMETERS; SOILS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; VEGETATION;

POLARIMETRIC SCATTERING; PULSE INCIDENCE; RETRIEVAL OF ROUGHNESS AND MOISTURE; TEMPORAL MUELLER MATRIX; VEGETATION CANOPY;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 1442336526     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2003.818810     Document Type: Article

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