Scale-dependent surface roughness behavior and its impact on empirical models for radar backscatter

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3480-3488

  Campbell, Bruce A ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Radar polarimetry; Radar scattering; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL MODEL; ASYMPTOTIC BEHAVIORS; BACKSCATTER DATA; COMPUTATIONAL SIMULATION; CORRELATION LENGTHS; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; EMPIRICAL MODEL; FIRST-ORDER PROCESS; GEOLOGICAL SURFACE; INCIDENCE ANGLES; LAVA FLOWS; LAVA SURFACE; LENGTH SCALE; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; POLARIMETRIC SCATTERING; POLARIZATION RATIOS; POWER LAW SCALINGS; RADAR BACKSCATTER; RADAR DATA; RADAR POLARIMETRY; RADAR REMOTE SENSING; RADAR SCATTERING; ROUGHNESS PARAMETERS; ROUGHNESS STATISTICS; SAMPLING INTERVAL; SELF-AFFINE; SELF-AFFINE SURFACES; SINGLE SCATTERING; SOIL SURFACES; STRUCTURE FUNCTIONS; VARIOGRAMS;

BACKSCATTERING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ELLIPSOMETRY; GEOLOGIC MODELS; PHOTORESISTS; POLARIMETERS; POLARIZATION; RADAR; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SAMPLING; SIMULATORS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

SURFACE PROPERTIES;

BACKSCATTER; DIELECTRIC PROPERTY; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; POLARIZATION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TOPOGRAPHY; WAVELENGTH;

EID: 70350618063     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2022752     Document Type: Article

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