Paddy fields as electrically dense media: Theoretical modeling and measurement comparisons

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2837-2849

  Koay, Jun Yi ^b   Tan, Chue Poh ^b   Lim, Ka Sing ^b   Bin Abu Bakar, Saiful Bahari ^c   Ewe, Hong Tat ^a,b   Chuah, Hean Teik ^a,b   Kong, Jin Au ^a,d,e  

^a IEEE

^b MULTIMEDIA UNIVERSITY   (Malaysia)

^c Malaysian Centre for Remote Sensing   (Malaysia)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Backscattering coefficient comparisons; Electrically dense medium; Rice field monitoring; Theoretical modeling

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADAR IMAGING; RADIATIVE TRANSFER;

BACKSCATTERING COEFFICIENT COMPARISONS; ELECTRICALLY DENSE MEDIUM; PHASE MATRIX; RICE FIELD MONITORING; THEORETICAL MODELING;

VEGETATION;

EID: 34548205251     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2007.902291     Document Type: Article

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